cormorant

cormorant

1. merimetso

Synonyymisanakirja

cormorant

pelikaanilintu, Phalacrocorax, Phalacrocorax-suku, merimetso, Phalacrocorax carbo.

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Englannin sanakirja

cormorant (englanti > suomi)

1. merimetso

cormorant englanniksi

1. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.

2. 1876, ":s:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Burmah|Burmah" in the :s:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition|Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., :s:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Volume IV|Vol. IV, :s:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Burmah|p. 552:

Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster|Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

3. A voracious eater; a glutton.

(rfquotek)

4. ravenous Ravenous, greedy.

5. w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s:Loves_Labour's_Lost|Love's Labour's Lost'', Act I, Scene 1

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,

Live registred upon our brazen tombs,''

And then grace us in the disgrace of death;

When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,

The endeavour of this present breath may buy

That honour which shall bate his scythes keen edge,''

And make us heirs of all eternity.

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