corvorant
corvorant · corvorants
Synonym of cormorantSynonym of cormorant.
Meaning
1 senses(obsolete)Synonym of cormorant.
Origin
A modification, due to folk etymology, of cormorant by combining it with Latin vorantem, tA 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”).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source