Cormorant (Noun)
Meaning
Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- A flock of cormorants descended upon the fish market, seeking scraps to snack on.
- In traditional Asian fishing, cormorants were used to catch fish by releasing them into the water with strings attached to their legs.
- Cormorants perched on a line of bamboo poles over the river, watching the fishermen cast their nets.
- Flocks of cormorants swooped and dived in the water below the fishing boat, trying to catch a fish.
- Locals by the lake loved to feed the cormorants bread as the dark-feathered birds gobbled them eagerly.