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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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Because both are anadromous species with weak homing instincts, they colonized coastal streams far from the original points of introduction.
The two anadromous species from Atlantic waters, striped bass and shad, have been welcome additions, not destroyers of native species.
Thus, consistently more alleles were found within the anadromous than within the landlocked populations from Maine.
As a member of the herring family, shad, along with salmon and striped bass, are anadromous, meaning they live in the ocean but swim inland and spawn in fresh water.
The freshwater banded killifish and the anadromous rainbow smelt increased in abundance from August into September.
Big dams stop anadromous fish, the best-known of which are salmon, returning to their spawning-grounds to breed.

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