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Webster 1913 Edition
Anadromous
A-nad′ro-mous
,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
,Adj.
Ascending; a word applied to such fish as pass from the sea into fresh waters, at stated seasons.
Definition 2024
anadromous
anadromous
English
Adjective
anadromous (not comparable)
- (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.
- (botany) Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.
Antonyms
- (botany): catadromous
Translations
of migratory fish
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