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Another word for migratory

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Adjective

  1. Moving from one habitat to another on a seasonal basis

    See also:

    move

  2. Moving from one area to another in search of work

    See also:

    move

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Another word for migratory

Modifier

  1. Having fixed habits of migration; said especially of birds

    Antonyms:

  2. Given to moving; said especially of transient labor

    See also:

    temporary

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • Females are more migratory than males.

  • Northern Alberta and the region farther north is the nesting-ground of the migratory birds.

  • Of birds there are more than 200 indigenous species, it is said, and migratory species are also numerous.

  • Being now twenty-one years of age, Abraham hired himself to Denton Offutt, a migratory trader and storekeeper then of Sangamon county, and he helped Offutt to build a flatboat and float it down the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans.

  • The commonest and most widely distributed migratory locust is Pachytylus cinerascens.

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