cormorant
Meaning of cormorant
noun
a large diving bird with a long neck, long hooked bill, short legs, and mainly dark plumage. It typically breeds on coastal cliffs.
Middle English: from Old French cormaran, from medieval Latin corvus marinus ‘sea raven’. The final -t is on the pattern of words such as peasant .
Information about cormorant
- It is a name.
- The plural form of cormorant is: cormorants.
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Hyphenation of cormorant
cor-morant
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- cormorant is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of cormorant
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