Definition of Darters

1. Noun. (plural of darter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Darters

1. darter [n] - See also: darter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Darters

darrein
darres
darring
darrs
darshan
darshans
dart
dart board
dart player
dart thrower
dartars
dartboard
dartboards
darted
darter
darters (current term)
darting
dartingly
dartings
dartitis
dartle
dartled
dartles
dartlike
dartling
dartoic
dartoic tissue
dartoid

Literary usage of Darters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"WHAT the humming-birds are in our avifauna, the " darters " are among our fresh-water fishes. ... The different individuals from the 1" Johnny darters. ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"In form and coloration these species greatly resemble the American darters, and the genus Zingel is, perhaps, the ancestor of the entire group ..."

3. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"In connection with the first we maintained a well-appointed aquarium in which we reared for observation the ten or twelve species of darters living in the ..."

4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"And having renewed a certain ancient alliance with Artas, who reigned there and granted them those darters, they went thence to ..."

5. The Pet Book by Anna Botsford Comstock (1914)
"THE JOHNNY darters BARTERS they are byname and habit; and it is the boy who spends some of his time ' studying the bottoms of swift brooks who makes the ..."

6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... without waiting for the Locrians, who were very much wanted, and were to have joined him (for he stood most in need of light-armed darters), he advanced ..."

7. Science Sketches by David Starr Jordan (1896)
"JOHNNY darters.1 ANY one who has ever been a boy and can remember back to the ... In all clear streams from Maine to Mexico the Johnny darters are found; ..."

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