migratory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin migrātōrius or migrate +‎ -ory.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.ɡɹəˌtɔɹ.i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪˈɡɹeɪ.tə.ɹi/

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Adjective

migratory (not comparable)

1. (of birds, etc) Migrating.
   • 2012, F.M. Faranda, Mediterranean Ecosystems: Structures and Processes, page 392:

     To cope with daily variation of environmental parameters, talitrids evolved a migratory behaviour, synchronized with tidal and nictemeral cycles, that enable them to locate the suitable patches of habitat on the shore (Pardi and Ercolini 1986).

   • 2015 December 5, “Diel Vertical Dynamics of Gelatinous Zooplankton (Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Thaliacea) in a Subtropical Stratified Ecosystem (South Brazilian Bight)”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer.

2. Roving; wandering; nomadic.

   migratory habits; a migratory life

Antonyms

• sedentary

Derived terms

• migratory bird
• migratory divorce
• migratory grasshopper
• migratory locust
• migratory restlessness
• migratory thrush
• nonmigratory, non-migratory

Related terms

• migration

Translations

(of birds, etc) that migrate

Bulgarian: мигриращ (bg) (migrirašt), прелетен (preleten) (за птици) Catalan: migratori (ca) Czech: stěhovavý (cs) m Dutch: trek- (nl) Finnish: muutto- (fi), vaellus- (fi) French: migrateur (fr) Galician: migratorio (gl) German: Zug- (de) Irish: imirceach, aistreánach Italian: migratorio (it), migrante (it) Northern Sami: bárbmo- Polish: przelotny (pl) Scottish Gaelic: imrich Spanish: migratorio (es) Turkish: göçebe (tr), göçmen (tr) Welsh: ymfudol

References

1. “migratory, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.