cormorant
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Substantiivi
cormorant englanniksi
Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family (taxfmt) which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Ocean; specifically, the cormorant ((taxfmt)).
(synonyms)
(RQ:Wood New Englands Prospect)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)&93; flew, and on the Tree of Life, / The middle Tree and higheſt there that grew, / Sat like a Cormorant; (..)|year=1873
(RQ:Thomson Winter)
(RQ:Darwin et al Voyages) I do not know of any other instance where dame Nature appears so wilfully cruel.
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre) One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; (..)
(RQ:Stoker Dracula)
(quote-book)|series=A Borzoi Book|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=A. Knopf|Alfred Abraham Knopf|year=1987|page=139|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sportofnatureno000gord/page/139/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-394-54802-9|passage=A man was swimming out towards them, his flailing arms black and defined in the heat-hazy radiance as the wings of a cormorant that skimmed the water.
A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
(sense) (synonyms)
(RQ:Elyot Governour), Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC)|Fabius Gurges, Gavius Apicius|Apicius, and dyuers other, to whiche carmorantes, neither lande, water, ne ayre, mought be sufficient.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1)
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
(quote-book)|title=The Life and Death of Mahomet, the Conquest of Spaine, together with the Rysing and Ruine of the Sarazen Empire|location=London|publisher=(...) Ralph Hodgkinson for Daniel Frere,(nb...)|year=1637|page=145|pageurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A10368.0001.001/158:5?vid=16030|oclc=504366114|passage=Surfetters, and Cormorants he compared to beasts voyd of reason.|footer=(small)
(RQ:Congreve Old Batchelour)
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)
(RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)
(RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)
Voracious; aggressively greedy.
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