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migrate |
migration |
migration route |
migrational |
migrator |
migratory
| migratory grasshopper
| migratory locust
| migratory quail
| miguel de cervantes
| miguel de cervantes saavedra
migratory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective migratory has 2 senses
- migratory(a = adj.all) Array - used of animals that move seasonally; "migratory birds" Derived form verb migrate2
- migratory(s = adj.all) migrant - habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers" Derived forms verb migrate1, verb migrate2
Antonym: nonmigratory
CIDE DICTIONARY
migratory, a. [Cf. F. migratoire.].
- Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
migratory
circumforaneous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, landloping, meandering, migrant, migrational, mobile, nomad, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, vagabond, vagrant, wanderingROGET THESAURUS
migratory
Journey
N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.
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