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katadromous

katadromous is the alternative form of catadromous.

Meaning of catadromous

Adjective

catadromous (comparative more catadromous, superlative most catadromous)

  1. Living in fresh water as an adult, but breeding in the sea.
    • 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.2017, James C Scott, chapter 1, in Against the Grain, New Haven & London: Yale, →ISBN, page 53
  2. Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the base of the frond.

Forms of katadromous

comparativemore katadromous
superlativemost katadromous

Questions about katadromous

What is katadromous the alternative form of?
Katadromous is the alternative form of catadromous.

Words near katadromous in the dictionary

  1. katabolizing
  2. katachresis
  3. katacrotic
  4. katacrotism
  5. katadicrotism
  6. katadromous
  7. kataegis
  8. katafront
  9. katafronts
  10. katagana
  11. katagelast

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