Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Able or tending to move from place to place or disperse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wandering; vagrant; not sedentary; not fixed.
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- adjective biology
Free tomove about .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having freedom to move about
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As climate change effects become more pronounced (e.g., degree-day boundaries or mean temperature isotherms shift northward), the more ecologically vagile species are likely to extend their geographic ranges northward [17].
Changes in aquatic biota and ecosystem structure and function in the Arctic 2009
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Secondary regrowth, however, has begun to offer opportunities for dispersal for a wide range of taxa, although significant movements of less vagile species such as salamanders, wildflowers, and land snails might require centuries.
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The pikas and water shrews and chipmunks and woodrats weren’t so vagile and adventurous as reptiles and birds often are.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The pikas and water shrews and chipmunks and woodrats weren’t so vagile and adventurous as reptiles and birds often are.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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