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migratory

/mahy-gruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ˈmaɪ grəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (ˈmaɪɡrətərɪ, -trɪ) //

洄游的,洄游,迁移性的,迁徙

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : migrating.
    • : periodically migrating: a migratory species; migratory workers.
    • : pertaining to a migration: migratory movements of birds.
    • : roving; nomadic; wandering.

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Examples

  • Here, visitors can spot otters, foxes, deer, and hundreds of migratory bird species from a two-mile boardwalk through the park.

  • Monarch butterflies are found across North America in two migratory populations separated by the Rocky Mountains.

  • The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, for example, grants a Bird Friendly certification to plantations with ample native tree cover and diversity, a boon for migratory birds.

  • That energy burn is roughly five times his resting metabolic rate, which is higher than most mammals and not far off migratory birds.

  • Thus, a thousand mile migratory trek would be out of the question.

  • Mayor Gardner noted that a lake that had served as a summer breeding ground for migratory cranes recently disappeared.

  • As a result, the water sank into the ground, prompting migratory cranes to issue calls of “grief and bewilderment.”

  • But it was also about the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, threatened by the flooding of the Great Salt Lake.

  • Demographic experts say Philadelphia is in the crosshairs of several unfortunate trends, both economic and migratory.

  • I have not been able to learn that the migratory flock above spoken of extended to any of the other Islands.

  • So probably its numbers are occasionally increased by migratory flocks in the winter.

  • These migratory hosts left a desert behind them, and they either gained a settlement or perished.

  • Yamba told me that there would have been no help for us had we been overtaken on foot by these migratory rodents.

  • The migratory birds are seen and heard flying northward by relays in hundreds of thousands.