corvorant

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corvorant

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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”).

noun corvorants

obsolete Synonym of cormorant.
Similar: cormorant

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@misc{corvorant_2026,
  title = {corvorant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/corvorant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}