Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Living in fresh water but migrating to marine waters to breed. Used of fish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Running down; descending: applied to certain fishes which descend streams to the sea to spawn: opposed to anadromous.
- In botany, having the first set of nerves (in each segment of a fern frond) given off on the basal side of the midrib, as in Osmunda. Compare anadromous .
Wiktionary
- adj. that lives in fresh water and breeds in the sea
- adj. Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the base of the frond.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to
anadromous . - adj. Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to
anadromous , and said of the eel.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn
Examples
“The reverse occurs with catadromous species, such as the eel (Anguilla anguilla), which spawns at sea.”
“Most arctic diadromous species are actually anadromous (i.e., use estuarine and/or marine environments for feeding and rearing; and freshwater environments for spawning, early life history, and, in the case of most arctic species, overwintering); only freshwater eels (Anguillidae) and some lampreys (Petromyzontidae) are catadromous (i.e., breed at sea and rear in freshwater).”
“I think the way Fish phrases his catadromous "position" on superdelegates is typical of both Fish and Althouse.”
“The catadromous American eel may also be found in the area.”
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland
“It is a catadromous species, meaning it lives primarily in fresh water and when the monsoon comes to the Top End this is what we call the Northern most reaches of Australia, the fish migrate to salt water in order to spawn.”
“It's the catadromous lifestyle that gives eels their profound weirdness.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘catadromous’.
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morphology Terms
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology words and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
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Eels
Words and phrases about eels.
apodal, conger, grig, never served raw, eelpout, eel, eelskin briefcase, eelskin, tribes in Persia ..., sniggling, sniggle, eel spear and 117 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Migration
Sandhill Crane, Canada Goose, lemmings, monarch butterfly, garter snakes, salmon, anadromous, catadromous, eels, gnu, gray whales, cedar waxwing and 18 more...
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bigger than England
Larger than your average Texan.
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cata-, cat-, kata-
down(ward), wrongly or badly, completely, against
catadromous, catastrophe, katabatic, catachresis, cataclysm, catapult, catatonic, catatonia, catawampus, catalyst, catabolic, catabolism and 24 more...
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-drome
denoting a place for running or racing; running or proceeding a certain way
hippodrome, palindrome, syndrome, prodrome, dromomania, catadromous
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