Migratory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Migratory \Mi"gra*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. migratoire.]
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     1. Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or
        climate to another; as, migratory birds.
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     2. Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a
        migratory life.
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     {Migratory locust} (Zool.) See {Locust}.
  
     {Migratory thrush} (Zool.), the American robin. See {Robin}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  migratory
       adj 1: used of animals that move seasonally; "migratory birds"
              [ant: {nonmigratory}]
       2: habitually moving from place to place especially in search
          of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of
          migrant life"; "migratory workers" [syn: {migrant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "migratory":
     circumforaneous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant,
     flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive,
     gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, landloping, meandering, migrant,
     migrational, mobile, nomad, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming,
     roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing,
     transient, transitory, transmigratory, vagabond, vagrant,
     wandering