Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

(archaic or obsolete) Voracious; aggressively greedy.

plural of cormorant

(Ireland) the shag.

A seabird of the species Phalacrocorax carbo.

plural of green cormorant

plural of great cormorant

An extinct species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, that once lived on Bering Island.

plural of spectacled cormorant

A species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax harrisi, endemic to the Galápagos Islands.