spectacled cormorant en · NOUN
Meanings
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An extinct species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, that once lived on Bering Island.
Inexperience of man, together with a general slowness of motion when on land, made spectacled cormorants easy prey.
2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 70:
Forms
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| spectacled cormorants | Number=Plur | lexicographic |