Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that moves suddenly and rapidly.
- n. See anhinga.
- n. Any of various small, often brilliantly colored freshwater fishes of the family Percidae, closely related to the perches and found in eastern North America.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who throws a dart.
- n. One who or that which springs or darts forward.
- n. In zoology: In ichth.: The archer-fish, Toxotes jaculator. One of the freshwater fishes of the United States constituting the subfamily Etheostominœ of the family Percidœ. All are of small size, and in general resemble the common yellow perch. The name is due to the fact that when disturbed they dart from their retreats, where they usually remain quiescent, on or near the bottom of streams.
- n. A fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea and family Cottidœ: In ornith.: A bird of the genus Plotus and family Plotidœ.. P. anhinga is the black-bellied darter, snake-bird, or water-turkey: so called from the way it darts upon its prey on the wing. See snake-bird, Plotus, and cut under
anhinga , plural The Plotidœ or snake-birds.
Wiktionary
- n. A waterbird with a long neck in the family Anhingidae.
- n. Any of various darting freshwater fish of the family Percidae, that are usually small and brightly coloured and are native to North America.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
- n. (Zoöl.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.
- n. (Zoöl.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly
- n. fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill
Examples
“The diamond darter is a close relative of the crystal darter (Crystallaria asprella), a small fish found in the drainage basins of the Mississippi River.”
“Hollin and his darter was a-fixin 'away, sorter like they was glad, but uvry now and then John kep' flingin 'out some uv his slang at' um 'fur fixin' so much fur them crippled creeturs, that had 'bout as much business a-marryin 'as two' possums. ”
“The fish are the spotted darter, which is endangered, and the Tippecanoe and bluebreast darters, which are threatened.”
“EPA biologists also found the variegate darter, which is common in Ohio but was last seen in Walnut Creek (also known as Little Walnut Creek) in 1955.”
“I would bet my best gun that there is a real hunter right behind the "darter" with a real gun.”
“Dolorez called, "Hello, girls," as she swung her car out again in the dusty roadway, and the "darter" deprived that little woman of her coveted information.”
“But that night the boasted style in which their "darter" lived was less appreciated than formerly: fashion and splendor were no longer a consolation.”
“Cress, you mout hev had YOURS, and that fool Dabney mout hev had HIS; but it warn't the old woman's -- nor Cressy's -- it warn't Blair Rawlins 'darter's idea -- nor yet HER darter's!”
“He was so fatherly to the young people that the girls in the Bee Hive, or the White Front, or the Racket Store used to brush his clothes when they needed it, if we in the office neglected him, and smooth his back hair with their pocket combs, and he -- never remembering the name of the particular ministering angel who fixed him up -- called one and all of them "darter," smiled a grateful smile like an old dog that is petted, and then went his way.”
“darter," and everyone who knew Dol knew, also, that these little attentions must have been rather costly to the country folks, for”
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Cepstrums
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birds
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Still More Bird Wirds
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barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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reesetee Also known as anhinga. Dec 4, 2007