Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Noun: darter  daa(r)-tu(r)
  1. A person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly
    "squirrels are darters"
     
  2. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill
    "The darter, or anhinga, swims with its body submerged and only its long neck visible above water";
    - snakebird, anhinga

Derived forms: darters

Type of: animal, animate being, pelecaniform seabird

Part of: genus Anhinga

Encyclopedia: Darter