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darter

noun

A waterbird with a long neck in the family Anhingidae.

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Farmers, industrialists and conservatives fume that the ESA has become a way for environmentalists to enlist such previously obscure creatures as the spotted owl and the snail darter in anti-business campaigns.

When mating, these molluscs often fire tiny, limestone darts at each other as part of the preliminaries.Snail darts are covered with a secretion that closes off blind alleys in the egg-fertilising machinery of the dartee, ensuring the sperm of the darter goes to good use.

The black darter requires ponds, pools and ditches on heathland and moorland in which to breed.

These support wet-loving species of plant such as the carnivorous round-leaved sundew, and are home to several species of dragonfly, including the endangered black darter, Britain's smallest resident and only black (males) dragonfly.

The largest, most influential institution of its… OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about a small fish called the snail darter.

OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about a small fish called the snail darter.

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A footballer can miss a sitter in one game, and score a hat-trick three days later, while a darts player can blow a crucial double in one leg, but hit a nine-darter in the very next sat.

His next nine perfect darts were remarkable enough, as Van Gerwen became just the sixth ever man to throw a nine-darter in a televised world championship.

Taylor then hit consecutive 180s with his first two visits to the oche in the second set, the Dutchman hit back with one of his own but the world No 1 finished off a 10-darter to go 1-0 up in the second set.

Another nine-darter came agonisingly close for Anderson in the fourth set.

The one-way traffic continued as Lewis immediately broke the throw with a 70 checkout before he moved into a two-set lead with another 14-darter.

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