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Darter

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who darts, or who throws darts; that which darts.
  2. 2
    a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly wordnet
  3. 3
    Any member of the family Anhingidae, waterbirds with long necks.

    "Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises."

  4. 4
    fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill wordnet
  5. 5
    Any of various darting freshwater fish of the family Percidae, that are usually small and brightly coloured and are native to North America.
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  1. 6
    Any of the similar South American (and Panamanian) freshwater fish in the characin family Crenuchidae
  2. 7
    Any of the dragonflies in the genus Sympetrum UK
  3. 8
    Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Arrhenes and Telicota.
  4. 9
    A game of darts that is won with the specified number of darts thrown. in-compounds

    "With a scoring target of 501, a nine-darter is a perfect game."

Etymology

From dart + -er.

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