Migratory
['maɪgrət(ə)rɪ;maɪ'greɪt(ə)rɪ] or ['maɪɡrətɔri]
Definition
(adj.) used of animals that move seasonally; 'migratory birds' .
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Definition
(a.) Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.
(a.) Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Nomadic, wandering.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nomadic, wandering, roving, vagrant
ANT:Settled, fixed, permanent
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Examples
- I can only assert that instincts certainly do vary--for instance, the migratory instinct, both in extent and direction, and in its total loss. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The population is migratory, usually disappearing on the verge of quarter-day, and generally by night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They were developing a migratory life out of the more settled forest clearing life of the earlier Neolithic period. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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