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DARTER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly

Example:

squirrels are darters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("darter" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Derivation:

dart (move with sudden speed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

Synonyms:

anhinga; darter; snakebird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("darter" is a kind of...):

pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "darter"):

Anhinga anhinga; water turkey (blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions)

Holonyms ("darter" is a member of...):

genus Anhinga (type genus of the Anhingidae)

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