"anadromous" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /əˈnad.ɹə.məs/ [UK], /əˈnæd.ɹə.məs/ [US] Audio: En-us-ncalif-anadromous.ogg [Northern-California, US]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάδρομος (anádromos), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|ἀνάδρομος}} Ancient Greek ἀνάδρομος (anádromos), {{m|grc|ἀνά||up}} ἀνά (aná, “up”), {{m|grc|δρόμος||running}} δρόμος (drómos, “running”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} anadromous (not comparable)
  1. (of a migratory fish) That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water. Tags: not-comparable Translations (of migratory fish): نَهْرِيُّ السَّرْءِ (nahriyyu s-sarʔi) [masculine] (Arabic), نَهْرِيَّةُ السَّرْءِ (nahriyyatu s-sarʔi) [feminine, masculine, plural, singular] (Arabic), anàdrom (Catalan), anadrominen (Finnish), anadrome (French), ανάδρομος (anádromos) (Greek), anadromo (Italian), anadromiczny (Polish), anádromo (Portuguese), анадро́мный (anadrómnyj) (Russian), проходно́й (proxodnój) (Russian), anádromo (Spanish), esgynnol (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-anadromous-en-adj-Tq6YCqar Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 72 28 Disambiguation of 'of migratory fish': 79 21
  2. (botany) Of a fern: in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Botany Translations (of a fern): anàdrom (Catalan), anadrominen (Finnish), anadromo (Italian), anadroma (Italian), anádromo (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-anadromous-en-adj-~1rtqLWJ Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'of a fern': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nonanadromous Related terms: anadrom, amphidromous, diadromous, oceanodromous, potamodromous

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "of migratory fish",
      "word": "анадро́мный"
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