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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Migrating up rivers from the sea to breed in fresh water. Used of fish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Ascending. Applied— In zoology, to fishes which pass from the sea to fresh water to spawn.
  2. In botany, to ferns whose lowest secondary branches originate on the anterior side of the pinuæ.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of a migratory fish That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water.
  2. adj. botany Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
  2. adj. (Bot.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἀνάδρομος, from ἀνά ("up") + δρόμοs ("running"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Greek anadromos, running up : ana-, ana- + dromos, a running. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • ruzuzu Thanks, michaelt42--I just added finnock to my trout list. Apr 12, 2012

  • michaelt42 Sea trout in the British Isles, which is anadromous in spawning behavior, is also known according to region as sewin in Wales, finnock (Scotland), peal (West Country), mort (North West England) and white trout (Ireland). It is the entry of the fry into the sea that governs the growth and subsequent spawning of this fish, which is genetically identical with brown trout. Apr 12, 2012

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