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- noun Plural form of
cormorant .
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Examples
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Of all Rhode Isalnd's sea birds, the cormorants are my favorite, and it was wonderful to be able to get so near to one, but alarming, too, as we realized it was either sick or injured (even though no injury was visible).
"And the world is closing doors." greygirlbeast 2009
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The cormorants are the best divers, so the pelicans arrange themselves in a large circle at some great distance from the land, and flap their great wings on the surface of the water, while the cormorants dive beneath.
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Now, you know were you to start a nice hindquarter of beef, which had to pass through all these hands, and every commissary take a choice steak and roast off it, there would be but little ever reach the company, and the poor man among the Johnnies had to feast like bears in winter -- they had to suck their paws -- but the rich Johnnies who had money could go to almost any of the gentlemen denominated commissaries (they ought to have been called cormorants) and buy of them much nice fat beef and meal and flour and sugar and coffee and nice canvassed hams, etc.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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When it comes to the modern birds, "we are particularly interested in species that are closely related where there are flying and flightless examples, such as cormorants, pigeons, parrots and ducks," Walsh told LiveScience.
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When it comes to the modern birds, "we are particularly interested in species that are closely related where there are flying and flightless examples, such as cormorants, pigeons, parrots and ducks," Walsh told LiveScience.
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"Large populations of flounder are present right up to Glasgow City centre, supporting seabirds such as cormorants and guillemots."
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"Large populations of flounder are present right up to Glasgow City centre, supporting seabirds such as cormorants and guillemots."
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Seabirds such as cormorants and seagulls were also part of their diet.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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This is a great place for bird watching, featuring cormorants, seagulls and a great variety of egrets.
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