diadromous

adjective

di·ad·ro·mous dī-ˈa-drə-məs

of a fish

: migratory between salt water and fresh water

diadromous fish species

Examples of diadromous in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web So far, two American shad, 80 alewife herring, 87 gizzard shad, 12 sea lamprey, 17 American eel, and 1 striped bass — all diadromous — were logged by the video camera that records everything swimming upstream at StanChem. —

Bill Leukhardt, courant.com, 12 June 2017 Case in point is one diadromous fish: the blueback herring. —

Bill Leukhardt, courant.com, 12 June 2017

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