MIGRATORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does migratory mean? 

• MIGRATORY (adjective)
  The adjective MIGRATORY has 2 senses:

1. used of animals that move seasonally

2. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work

  Familiarity information: MIGRATORY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIGRATORY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of animals that move seasonally

Context example:

migratory birds

Antonym:

nonmigratory (used of animals that do not migrate)

Derivation:

migrate (move periodically or seasonally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work

Synonyms:

migrant; migratory

Context example:

migratory workers

Similar:

unsettled (not settled or established)

Derivation:

migrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)

migrate (move periodically or seasonally)

 Context examples 

It stimulates a migratory response in CD4+ lymphocytes, monocytes, and eosinophils as well as induces T-lymphocyte expression of interleukin 2 receptor.

(Interleukin-16, NCI Thesaurus)

The European eel (Anguilla Anguilla) is a migratory species that crosses the Atlantic Ocean twice during its lifetime.

(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)

A cellular process where an epithelial cell loses polarity, disassembles adhesive junctions, degrades its basement membrane and transforms into a migratory mesenchymal cell.

(Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition, NCI Thesaurus)

A gene associated with the migratory patterns of golden-winged and blue-winged warblers could lend insight into the longstanding question of how birds migrate across long distances.

(New insights into genetic basis of bird migration, National Science Foundation)

The tool's name refers to the fine, almost invisible, "mist nets" with which ornithologists capture migratory songbirds.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

Abnormally high levels of glucagon in the blood, which may manifest as hyperglycemia and/or necrolytic migratory erythema.

(Hyperglucagonemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Given 2004 EW95’s present-day abode in the icy outer reaches of the Solar System, this implies that it has been flung out into its present orbit by a migratory planet in the early days of the Solar System.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

She is migratory.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On Earth, worms and clams that live in the muddy sea beds require 1 mg per liter, bottom feeders such as crabs and oysters 3 mg per liter, and spawning migratory fish 6 mg per liter, all within 0.2 moles per cubic meter, 6.4 mg per liter.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)

Dams block migration routes along the river gradient, which impacts migratory fish - and some, like the catfish, are the most valuable in the fishery sector in the Amazon because they tend to be larger.

(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)