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cormorant 音标拼音: [k'ɔrmɚənt] n. 鸬鹚,贪婪的人
a. 贪婪的 鸬□,贪婪的人贪婪的 cormorant n 1: large voracious dark- colored long- necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish [ synonym: { cormorant}, { Phalacrocorax carbo}] Cormorant \ Cor" mo* rant\ ( k[^ o] r" m[- o]* rant), n. [ F. cormoran, fr. Armor. m[= o] r- vran a sea raven; m[= o] r sea bran raven, with cor, equiv. to L. corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed; or perh. fr. L. corvus marinus sea raven.] 1. ( Zool.) Any species of { Phalacrocorax}, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called { sea ravens}, and { coalgeese}. [ Written also { corvorant}.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] Cormorant ( Lev. 11: 17; Deut. 14: 17), Heb. shalak, " plunging," or " darting down," ( the Phalacrocorax carbo), ranked among the " unclean" birds; of the same family group as the pelican. It is a " plunging" bird, and is common on the coasts and the island seas of Palestine. Some think the Hebrew word should be rendered " gannet" ( Sula bassana, " the solan goose"); others that it is the " tern" or " sea swallow," which also frequents the coasts of Palestine as well as the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan valley during several months of the year. But there is no reason to depart from the ordinary rendering. In Isa. 34: 11, Zeph. 2: 14 ( but in R. V., " pelican") the Hebrew word rendered by this name is _ka' ath_. It is translated " pelican" ( q. v.) in Ps. 102: 6. The word literally means the " vomiter," and the pelican is so called from its vomiting the shells and other things which it has voraciously swallowed. ( See { PELICAN}.)
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