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migratory
/ -trɪ; ˈmaɪɡrətərɪ /
adjective
- of, relating to, or characterized by migration
- nomadic; itinerant
migratory
/ mī′grə-tôr′ē /
- Traveling from one place to another at regular times of year, often over long distances. Salmon, whales, and swallows are all migratory animals.
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Other Words From
- non·migra·tory adjective
- pre·migra·tory adjective
- un·migra·tive adjective
- un·migra·tory adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of migratory1
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Example Sentences
Mayor Gardner noted that a lake that had served as a summer breeding ground for migratory cranes recently disappeared.
As a result, the water sank into the ground, prompting migratory cranes to issue calls of “grief and bewilderment.”
But it was also about the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, threatened by the flooding of the Great Salt Lake.
Demographic experts say Philadelphia is in the crosshairs of several unfortunate trends, both economic and migratory.
I have not been able to learn that the migratory flock above spoken of extended to any of the other Islands.
So probably its numbers are occasionally increased by migratory flocks in the winter.
These migratory hosts left a desert behind them, and they either gained a settlement or perished.
Yamba told me that there would have been no help for us had we been overtaken on foot by these migratory rodents.
The migratory birds are seen and heard flying northward by relays in hundreds of thousands.
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