Anadromous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Migrating up rivers from the sea to breed in fresh water. Used of fish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water.
  • adj. Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
  • adj. Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Ascending.
  • In botany, to ferns whose lowest secondary branches originate on the anterior side of the pinuæ.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn
    • Antonym
    catadromous   
    Cross Reference
    diadromous    amphidromous    potamodromous    oceanodromous   
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