Crossword-Solution: ANADROMOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anadromous | a. | Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc. |
| Anadromous | a. | Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. |
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| of fish, migrating up rivers from the sea to spawn in fresh water | 1 answer |
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Sentences with ANADROMOUS (5)
The salmon is what is called _anadromous_--that is, though an inhabitant of the ocean for most of the year, it ascends the fresh-water rivers in summer to spawn.
Fish were salted when there was a surplus and in certain seasons, especially the spawning time of the anadromous river-herring, they were available in phenomenal quantities.
Shad, along with other anadromous, or "up-running," fish are born near the head-waters of rivers, and seek the ocean for feeding and growth.
Locally it was supposed that these fish were a species of char, but in a pamphlet published by the Government of British Columbia on the fisheries it is stated: "There is another smaller form of the sockeye salmon, found in many of the interior waters, that appears to be a permanently small form, which is known to writers as 'the little red fish,' 'Kennerly's salmon,' or 'the Evermann form of the sockeye,' and which in some lakes of the province can be shown not to be anadromous.
The steel-head trout (_Salmo gairdneri_) is the anadromous form of the rainbow, bearing the same relation to it as our sea-trout does to the brown trout.