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Definition of Phalacrocorax carbo
1. Noun. Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish.
Generic synonyms: Pelecaniform Seabird
Group relationships: Genus Phalacrocorax, Phalacrocorax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phalacrocorax Carbo
Literary usage of Phalacrocorax carbo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"... cocca small; rectum narrow; cloaca globular. Trachea considerably flattened;
bronchi of moderate width. THE COMMON CORMORANT. phalacrocorax carbo, Linn. ..."
2. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
"Anterior aspect of right tarso-metatarsus of phalacrocorax carbo (No. ... All the
bones of phalacrocorax carbo on this Plate are from the skeleton of the ..."
3. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1895)
"phalacrocorax carbo (LINN.). Cormorant. Pelecanus carbo LINN. SN ed. ...
phalacrocorax carbo LEACH, Syst. Cat. Mam. and Bds. Brit. Mus. 1816, 34. ..."
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