Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Migrating up rivers from the sea to breed in fresh water. Used of fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ascending.
- In botany, to ferns whose lowest secondary branches originate on the anterior side of the pinuæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
- adjective (Bot.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a migratory fish That
lives in thesea andbreeds infresh water . - adjective botany Of a
fern in which the firstveins in afrond segment are produced towards theapex of the frond.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term anadromous refers to fish that swim upstream to spawn, which includes many species of salmon.
President Names Pennoyer To Fish Commissions ITY National Archives 1994
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Might have heard the term anadromous, which means they migrate to large bodies of water and return to tributaries to spawn.
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Might have heard the term anadromous, which means they migrate to large bodies of water and return to tributaries to spawn.
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The late Al McClane, a well known and widely traveled angling author, wrote that the Arctic char referring to the anadromous form of erythrinus of northern Canada may be quite literally the strongest fish that swims.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The late Al McClane, a well known and widely traveled angling author, wrote that the Arctic char referring to the anadromous form of erythrinus of northern Canada may be quite literally the strongest fish that swims.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The late Al McClane, a well known and widely traveled angling author, wrote that the Arctic char referring to the anadromous form of erythrinus of northern Canada may be quite literally the strongest fish that swims.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The late Al McClane, a well known and widely traveled angling author, wrote that the Arctic char referring to the anadromous form of erythrinus of northern Canada may be quite literally the strongest fish that swims.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Although the term "anadromous" refers only to those fish that spawn in freshwater and live most of their lives in saltwater, it is often used interchangeably with "diadromous."
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A stylized portrayal of some potential direct effects of climate parameters on arctic aquatic environments and some potential indirect effects on aquatic organisms such as anadromous fish.
Information required to project responses of arctic fish 2009
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Steelhead are, however, technically "anadromous," which, according to my dictionary, means "ascending rivers from the sea."
Great Lakers Not Steelhead? Tim Romano 2007
michaelt42 commented on the word anadromous
Sea trout in the British Isles, which is anadromous in spawning behavior, is also known according to region as sewin in Wales, finnock (Scotland), peal (West Country), mort (North West England) and white trout (Ireland). It is the entry of the fry into the sea that governs the growth and subsequent spawning of this fish, which is genetically identical with brown trout.
April 12, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word anadromous
Thanks, michaelt42--I just added finnock to my trout list.
April 12, 2012