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/əˈnad.ɹə.məs/ · adjective
(of a migratory fish) That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water..
Shads and most species of salmon are anadromous.
Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.
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.
Emphasizing that it has applied equitable apportionment to not only rivers and streams but also to interstate river basins, to groundwater pumping that affects surface water flows, and to anadromous fish like Chinook salmon and steelhead trout, the court stated that equitable apportionment applies only when transboundary resources are at issue.
Use anadromous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anadromous means (of a migratory fish) That lives in the sea and breeds in fresh water..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include catadromous, diadromous.
Shads and most species of salmon are anadromous.
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