catadromous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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. sıfat Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the base of the frond.