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Anadromous   Listen
adjective
Anadromous  adj.  
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.





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"Anadromous" Quotes from Famous Books



... order to utilize the spawning salmon in the region which lies above commercial fishing, and thus increase by artificial means the production of young fish. It is well known that even under the best conditions now prevailing in our streams the eggs of anadromous fishes like the salmon and shad are liable to numerous destructive agencies; that only a small percentage of the eggs laid under natural surroundings ever hatch, and that the young are subject to heavy mortality up to the time when ...
— The Salmon Fishery of Penobscot Bay and River in 1895-96 • Hugh M. Smith


Words linked to "Anadromous" :   catadromous


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