Search Result for "migratory":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. used of animals that move seasonally;
- Example: "migratory birds"
2. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work;
- Example: "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"
- Example: "migratory workers"
[syn: migrant, migratory]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Migratory \Mi"gra*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. migratoire.] [1913 Webster] 1. Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life. [1913 Webster] Migratory locust (Zool.) See Locust. Migratory thrush (Zool.), the American robin. See Robin. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
