anadromousadj.
1. Zool. Of fishes: Ascending rivers to spawn.
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anadromous1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Anadromous..denoting such [fishes] as have their times of going from the fresh water to the salt, and afterwards returning.
1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 640 The salmon is undoubtedly the finest..of our fresh-water fishes, or rather of those anadromous kinds which..seek alternately the briny sea and the ‘rivers of water.’
1880 Times 31 Dec. 6/1 The artificial propagation of Anadromous Fish other than the Salmon.
2. Bot. (See quot.)
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the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [adjective] > of or belonging to group or type of fern
polypodiaceous1818
osmundaceous1842
marsileaceous1857
salviniaceous1858
anadromous1881
pteridophytic1883
homophyadic1889
medullosean1899
trichomanoid1900
medullosan1903
resam1939
heterophyadic-
1881 J. G. Baker in Nature 24 Mar. 480/2 Milde's classification of ferns into a catadromous and anadromous series, according as to whether their lowest secondary branches originate on the posterior or anterior side of the pinnæ.
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