rainbow darter

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noun

a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.

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Also called soldierfish.

Origin of rainbow darter

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Words nearby rainbow darter

rainbow, rainbow bird, Rainbow Bridge, rainbow cactus, rainbow-collar, rainbow darter, rainbow fish, rainbow flag, rainbow lorikeet, rainbow nation, rainbow quartz

How to use rainbow darter in a sentence

Meanwhile, big dollar advertising campaigns have taken an explicit rainbow-hued slant.
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She is smiling, a pink-striped hat on her head and a mini rainbow lollipop sticking out of her mouth.
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Here and there, sparingly, one of the dolls might be purple or green: “Rainbow Piets,” they call them.
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David Bowie, Ronnie Wood, and Marianne Faithfull were regulars at the Rainbow Room, a restaurant on the fifth floor.
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Because the marketing of the screening included a rainbow flag and said it was to be the kickoff of “LGBT Awareness Month.”
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Directly after them came a lot of palace attendants in curious hats and long robes of all colours of the rainbow.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
The colours of the rainbow shone there in pale tints, and the flaring sunshine could not enter.
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They glittered and shone with an intensity of colour which surpassed even those of the rainbow.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
Nor did the future appear any more in a rainbow glory, since he realised that it would bring renunciation as well as joy.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on a rainy day: this was the appearance of the brightness round about.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various