catadromous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Living in fresh water as an adult, but breeding in the sea.
    — Bird migration routes favor marshes and river valleys, as do, more obviously, the movement of anadromous salmon and, the mirror image, catadromous eels, to mention only two of the numerous migrating fish species.
  2. Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the base of the frond.

词形变化

more catadromous comparative most catadromous superlative

词汇关系

反义词
anadromous
相关词
amphidromous diadromous oceanodromous potamodromous

词源

From cata- + -dromous, by analogy with anadromous. Compare catanadromous.
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