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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anadromous /əˈnadrəməs/

▶adjective Zoology (of a fish) migrating up rivers from the sea to spawn. The opposite of catadromous.

– origin C18: from Gk anadromos (from ana- ‘up’ + dromos ‘running’) + -ous.

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