diadromous

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Geological Survey-led team of scientists from the United States, Canada and Mexico, who examined the status of continental freshwater and diadromous (those that migrate between rivers and oceans) fish.

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  1. In botany, having all the nearly equal nerves proceeding in a fan-like, manner from the summit of the petiole to the margin of the leaf, as in the maidenhair-tree.

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  • Geological Survey-led team of scientists from the United States, Canada and Mexico, who examined the status of continental freshwater and diadromous (those that migrate between rivers and oceans) fish. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • This is the third compilation of imperiled, freshwater and diadromous fishes of North America prepared by the American Fisheries Society's Endangered Species Committee. —  Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
  • DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine - The state's $24 million operational plan to restore diadromous fish —  BangorDailyNews.com > News
  • "The plan has 30 objectives to reach the long-term goal to restore and guide management of diadromous fish populations, aquatic resources and the ecosystems on which they depend, for their intrinsic, ecological, economic, recreational, scientific, and educational values for use by the public," Laser said Friday. http: / / maine. gov / dmr / searunfish / reports / POPFullDraft4-13-09. pdf, will be accepted until May 28. —  BangorDailyNews.com > News
 

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  1. Greek διάδρομος, running through, from διά, through, + -δρομος, from δραμεῖν, run.
 

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