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n. - A person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly; Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.

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  • The fish are the spotted darter, which is endangered, and the Tippecanoe and bluebreast darters, which are threatened.
  • She darter (daughter) got a abscess in her stomach.
  • M. O'BRIEN: What happened to the snail darter (ph)?
  • There's my darter and Miss HYPATIA around somewhere.
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