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Definition of Cormorants
1. cormorant [n] - See also: cormorant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cormorants
Literary usage of Cormorants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"cormorants have a more bulky body than do the Anhingas; their tail is shorter
and the bill ... cormorants are found in nearly all quarters of the globe. ..."
2. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"cormorants are found in nearly all quarters of the globe. They are very gregarious
and most species are ... Most of the cormorants have green eyes. ' V.. ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"cormorants. cormorants arc found iu all parts of the world. Ten of the thirty
known species inhabit North America. As a rule they are maritime, ..."
4. Birds that Hunt and are Hunted: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy by Neltje Blanchan (1904)
"Long, serried ranks of double-crested cormorants come flying northward from the
Gulf states in April, and pass along the Atlantic shores so high overhead ..."
5. The Irish in America by John Francis Maguire, William Joseph Hardee (1868)
"... Emigration Commission and its Work—Land- sharks and their Prey—Finding Canal
Street—A Scotch Victim— The Sharks and cormorants—Bogus Tickets—How the ..."
6. The Birds of Ontario: Being a Concise Account of Every Species of Bird Known by Thomas McIlwraith (1894)
"Although the cormorants are generally birds of the sea coast, when not specially
engaged at home, the}' make periodical excursions to the lakes, ..."
7. Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts by Frederick Victor Dickins (1906)
"246 With a Present of cormorants '. )m City-Royal all places one are, as the
years pass uns of life sum up ay from homeland, ..."
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