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UK
/dˈɑːtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈdɑɹtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɑɹtɝ/ ]
NOUN
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a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly
squirrels are darters - fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill
How To Use darter In A Sentence
- The fish are the spotted darter, which is endangered, and the Tippecanoe and bluebreast darters, which are threatened. Dispatch.com: RSS
- I would bet my best gun that there is a real hunter right behind the "darter" with a real gun. Why Darting Isn't Hunting
- The bluebreast darter is threatened in Ohio; it occurs in the swift, rocky riffles of Big Darby Creek, a State and National Scenic River in Ecoregion 55e. Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)
- Streams support a distinctive group of species not widely found elsewhere in Ecoregion 27, including the bigeye shiner, southern redbelly dace, stoneroller, black and golden redhorses, spotted bass, logperch, and orangethroat darter. Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
- Two surgical incisions are used in carotid artery endarterectomies.
- Because water quality in the Elk River is improving, and because we have discovered ways to provide additional habitat in the form of natural slabrocks, more areas in the Elk River are ready for boulder darters.
- Most radically, we have extended protection to every endangered species, even the lowliest and most unprepossessing-the Furbish lousewort, the snail darter, the desert pupfish, the spotted owl.
- More than 200 species of birds are also found here, including the rare Storm's stork and the oriental darter, kingfishers and raptors such as the crested serpent eagle.
- The A-Darter will still notionally equip SAAF Gripens, but a long-awaited series of initial flight tests have yet to occur and the future of the programme is in doubt.
- The only species present in Clyde Creek were blacknose shiner, Iowa darter, central mudminnow, and pearl dace.