darter

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssnakebirdanhinga

   Broaderpelecaniform seabird

   Narrowerwater turkey

   Part ofgenus Anhinga
2. 2.

   a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly

   “squirrels are darters”

   Broaderanimal

Other forms of darter

plural

darters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about darter

What does darter mean?

darter means "fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in darter?

darter has 2 syllables: dar-ter. The stress falls on "dar". In IPA it is /ˈdɑɹtɚ/.

What is another word for darter?

Close synonyms include snakebird, anhinga. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is darter a common word?

darter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.