Eulachon are an anadromous forage fish and are endemic to the northeastern Pacific Ocean; they range from northern California to southwest and south-central Alaska and into the southeastern Bering Sea.
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Anadromous
/əˈnæd.ɹə.məs/
Synonyms for "anadromous" (2 found)
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2 entriesmigration patternmigratory life history
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4 entriesCollocations
6 entriesanadromous fishanadromous life cycleanadromous migrationanadromous populationsanadromous salmonidsanadromous species
Inflections
2 entriesmore anadromousmost anadromous
Derivations
2 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 12 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- نَهْرِيَّةُ السَّرْءِ adj (of migratory fish)
- نَهْرِيُّ السَّرْءِ adj (of migratory fish)
Catalan
1 entries- anàdrom adj (of migratory fish)
Dutch
1 entries- anadroom adj (of migratory fish)
Finnish
1 entries- anadrominen adj (of migratory fish)
French
1 entries- anadrome adj (of migratory fish)
Greek
1 entries- ανάδρομος adj (of migratory fish)
Italian
1 entries- anadromo adj (of migratory fish)
Polish
1 entries- anadromiczny adj (of migratory fish)
Portuguese
1 entries- anádromo adj (of migratory fish)
Russian
2 entries- анадро́мный adj (of migratory fish)
- проходно́й adj (of migratory fish)
Spanish
1 entries- anádromo adj (of migratory fish)
Welsh
1 entries- esgynnol adj (of migratory fish)
Sample sentences
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Shads and most species of salmon are anadromous.
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Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.
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Bird migration routes favor marshes and river valleys, as do, more obviously, the movement of anadromous salmon and, the mirror image, catadromous eels, to mention only two of the numerous migrating fish species.
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