cormorant

«cormorant» in Mova's school dictionary: A large dark sea bird with a long neck and hooked beak… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cormorant, cormorants)

meaning for a pupil

A large dark sea bird with a long neck and hooked beak that dives underwater to catch fish. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons, cormorants are seen on rocks by the sea or rivers, holding their wings out to dry because their feathers are not fully waterproof. In China and Japan, people traditionally fished with trained cormorants.

examples

• A cormorant dived and came up with a fish. tree →
• The cormorants stood on the rocks drying their wings. tree →
• Cormorants can swim fast underwater. tree →
• We saw a cormorant at the harbour. tree →
• Cormorants have hooked beaks. tree →
• Fishermen in China once used cormorants to catch fish. tree →

note

Say «COR-mor-ant». Countable. In New Zealand cormorants are often called shags.

In the corpora

• and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl;
• and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cormorant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.