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Noun: darter  daa(r)-tu(r)
  1. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill
    - snakebird, anhinga
     
  2. A person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly
    "squirrels are darters"

Derived forms: darters

Type of: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna, pelecaniform seabird

Part of: genus Anhinga

Encyclopedia: Darter