About The Word Migratory
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Migratory
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What's The Definition Of Migratory?
[adj] habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers"
[adj] used of animals that move seasonally; "migratory birds" Synonyms | Synonyms for Migratory: migrant | unsettled Related Terms | Find terms related to Migratory: circumforaneous | discursive | divagatory | drifting | errant | flitting | floating | footloose | footloose and fancy-free | fugitive | gadding | gypsyish | gypsy-like | landloping | meandering | migrant | migrational | mobile | nomad | nomadic | rambling | ranging | roaming | roving | shifting | straggling | straying | strolling | traipsing | transient | transitory | transmigratory | vagabond | vagrant | wandering See Also | Migratory In Webster's Dictionary \Mi"gra*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. migratoire.]
1. Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or
climate to another; as, migratory birds.
2. Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a
migratory life.
{Migratory locust} (Zo["o]l.) See {Locust}.
{Migratory thrush} (Zo["o]l.), the American robin. See
{Robin}.
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