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Webster 1913 Edition


Anadromous

A-nad′ro-mous

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Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] running upward; [GREEK] + [GREEK] a running, [GREEK] to run.]
1.
(Zool.)
Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
2.
(Bot.)
Tending upwards; – said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.
D. C. Eaton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Anadromous

ANAD'ROMOUS

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Adj.
[Gr. upward and course.]
Ascending; a word applied to such fish as pass from the sea into fresh waters, at stated seasons.

Definition 2024


anadromous

anadromous

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anadromous (not comparable)

  1. (of a migratory fish) That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water.
    Shads and most species of salmon are anadromous.
    • 2014 April 20, Richard Conniff, “An evolutionary family drama”, in The New York Times:
      Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.
  2. (botany) Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.

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