anadromous
/əˈnæd.ɹə.məs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.92 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water.
Example Sentences
- "Shads and most species of salmon are anadromous."
- "Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn."
- "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."
- "Emphasizing that it has applied equitable apportionment to not only rivers and streams but also to interstate river basins, to groundwater pumping that affects surface water flows, and to anadromous fish like Chinook salmon and steelhead trout, the court stated that equitable apportionment applies only when transboundary resources are at issue."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀνάδρομος (anádromos, “fish entering a river from the sea”). By surface analysis, ana- + -dromous.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ἀνάδρομος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈnæd.ɹə.məs/
- British English: /əˈnad.ɹə.məs/