Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Passing at fixed intervals from salt water into fresh, and returning: applied to such fishes as the salmon and the shad. Also written
catandromous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.), rare Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology
Ascending anddescending freshwater streams from and to thesea , as thesalmon does;anadromous .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek down + up + a running, course.
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