dart1
dart2
dart [därt]
An egg-shaped ornament alternating with a dart-like ornament, used to enrich ovolo and echinus moldings and also on bands. In the egg-and-anchor, egg-and-arrow, and egg-and-tongue moldings, the dartlike ornament is varied in form.
1. a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot, as in the game of darts
2. Zoology a slender pointed structure, as in snails for aiding copulation or in nematodes for penetrating the host's tissues
dart2
any of various tropical and semitropical marine fish
dart [därt]
(invertebrate zoology)
A small sclerotized structure ejected from the dart sac of certain snails into the body of another individual as a stimulant before copulation.
egg and dart, echinus, egg and anchor, egg and arrow, egg and tongue
egg and dart
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