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Anadromous
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
2. Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton.