migratory
adjCA, US /ˈmaɪ.ɡɹəˌtɔɹ.i/ · UK /ˌmaɪˈɡɹeɪ.tə.ɹi/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin migrātōrius or migrate + -ory.
1
Of birds Migrating.
- To cope with daily variation of environmental parameters, talitrids evolved a migratory behaviour, synchronized with tidal and nictemeral cycles, that enable them to locate the suitable patches of habitat on the shore (Pardi and Ercolini 1986).2012, F.M. Faranda, Mediterranean Ecosystems: Structures and Processes, page 392:
- Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer.2015 December 5, “Diel Vertical Dynamics of Gelatinous Zooplankton (Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Thaliacea) in a Subtropical Stratified Ecosystem (South Brazilian Bight)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
2
Roving; wandering; nomadic.
- migratory habits; a migratory life
- Antonyms
- sedentary
- Derived terms
- antimigratory, comigratory, electromigratory, endomigratory, hypermigratory, migratorily, migratory bird, migratory divorce, migratory grasshopper, migratory locust, migratory restlessness, migratory thrush, nonmigratory, non-migratory, postmigratory, premigratory, promigratory, Wartenberg's migratory sensory neuropathy
- Related terms
- migration