Meaning of DARTER
| Pronunciation: | | 'dârtur
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- [n] a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly; "squirrels are darters"
- [n] fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill
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| | Synonyms: | | anhinga, snakebird |
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| | See Also: | | Anhinga anhinga, animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna, genus Anhinga, pelecaniform seabird, water turkey | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dart"er\, n.
1. One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus
{Plotus}; -- so called because it darts out its long,
snakelike neck at its prey. See {Snakebird}.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The
group includes numerous genera and species, all of them
American. See {Etheostomoid}.
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