migratory
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
migrate /mʌɪˈgreɪt, ˈmʌɪgreɪt/
▶verb
- 1 (of an animal) move from one habitat to another according to the seasons.
- 2 (of a person) move to a new area in order to find work.
- 3 move from one part of something to another.
■ Computing transfer or cause to transfer from one system to another.
– derivatives
migration /-ˈgreɪʃ(ə)n/ noun,
migrational adjective,
migrator noun,
migratory /ˈmʌɪgrət(ə)ri, mʌɪˈgreɪt(ə)ri/ adjective.
migration /-ˈgreɪʃ(ə)n/ noun,
migrational adjective,
migrator noun,
migratory /ˈmʌɪgrət(ə)ri, mʌɪˈgreɪt(ə)ri/ adjective.
– origin C17: from L. migrat-, migrare ‘move, shift’.
'migratory' also found in these Oxford entries:
bigeye
- bird of passage
- Camberwell beauty
- clouded yellow
- dotterel
- dunlin
- fieldfare
- fresh-run
- garden warbler
- goldeneye
- hermit thrush
- hobby
- mew gull
- migrate
- monarch
- mute swan
- nightingale
- painted lady
- passenger pigeon
- red admiral
- redwing
- resident
- run
- sailfish
- sanderling
- sea trout
- sedentary
- sedge warbler
- sevruga
- short-eared owl
- smew
- spalpeen
- steelhead
- swallow
- trumpeter swan
- tundra swan
- vagrant
- visitor
- whimbrel
- whitethroat
- whooper
- willow warbler
- yellowlegs
