ANADROMOUS

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.

2.
a.

Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton.


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