migrativeadj.
/ˈmʌɪɡrətɪv/, U.S. /ˈmaɪɡrədɪv/ Now rare.
= migratory adj.
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1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Blackcap The blackcap is a migrative species visiting us early in the spring.
1811 C. Lamb Let. 12 Oct. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 79 The migrative Actress has not yet taken her flight, and in all birdish probability sets out tomorrow.
1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 534 It is a migrative bird, visiting our coasts in August.
a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 181 I was as if stupefied.., and flying on like those migrative swallows of Professor Owen, after my strength was done.
1878 Rep. Montreal Hort. Soc. & Fruit Growers' Assoc. Quebec 1877 91 This marked difference in the migrative power of the two floras.
1979 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 40 261 Some migrative eels apparently follow temperature gradients in the water.
1993 Histochem. 100 485/1 The cytoplasmic form of some migrative lectin-rich cells.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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