1
: anhinga
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: any of numerous small North American freshwater bony fishes (especially genera Ammocrypta, Etheostoma, and Percina of the family Percidae)
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People gravitate to it, leaving more open space on the fringes for former lawn darters like me.
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
On the landward side are women with parasols and schoolchildren coasting on bicycles alongside emerald green paddy fields that harbor a wealth of wetland birds: pond herons, darters, sunbirds.
—Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024
Among them are a colorful fish known as the candy darter that lives in rivers in the southeastern U.S., a flowering shrub from the Virgin Islands called marron bacora, the Panama City crayfish of Florida and the pocket-sized Stephens’ kangaroo rat in southern California.
—Matthew Brown, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
Among them are a colorful fish known as the candy darter that lives in rivers in the southeastern U.S., a flowering shrub from the Virgin Islands called marron bacora, the Panama City crayfish of Florida and the pocket-sized Stephens' kangaroo rat in southern California.
—CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
On the landward side are women with parasols and schoolchildren coasting on bicycles alongside emerald green paddy fields that harbor a wealth of wetland birds: pond herons, darters, sunbirds.
—Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024
Among them are a colorful fish known as the candy darter that lives in rivers in the southeastern U.S., a flowering shrub from the Virgin Islands called marron bacora, the Panama City crayfish of Florida and the pocket-sized Stephens’ kangaroo rat in southern California.
—Matthew Brown, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
Among them are a colorful fish known as the candy darter that lives in rivers in the southeastern U.S., a flowering shrub from the Virgin Islands called marron bacora, the Panama City crayfish of Florida and the pocket-sized Stephens' kangaroo rat in southern California.
—CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023
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