English Explanatory Dictionary

corvorant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of cormorant.

Word forms

corvorant corvorants

Etymology

A modification, due to folk etymology, of cormorant by combining it with Latin vorantem, the accusative masculine or feminine singular of vorāns (“devouring; swallowing up”), the present active participle of vorō (“to devour, eat greedily; to swallow up”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, eat; to swallow”).

Synonyms

cormorant
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