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What does anadromous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a migratory fish) That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water.
  2. (botany) Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the apex of the frond.
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The freshwater banded killifish and the anadromous rainbow smelt increased in abundance from August into September.
Federal government manages anadromous, catadromous and other marine species.
Typically, salmon are anadromous which means they are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce.
Unlike lampreys, salmon, and other anadromous fish, which migrate from the ocean to fresh water to breed, eels head in the opposite direction.
Because both are anadromous species with weak homing instincts, they colonized coastal streams far from the original points of introduction.
This is an account of nineteenth-century efforts to naturalize alien freshwater and anadromous fish in California.

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