darter vs beast

darter and beast both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
darter	Yes	No	No	No
beast	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beast is a hypernym of darter; that is, beast is a word with a broader meaning than darter:

Other hypernyms of darter include animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna.

darter (noun)	beast (noun)
a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill	a cruelly rapacious person