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migrational

migrational

1 7.4
About movement of animals or people from one place to another
  • adjective
  • /maɪˈɡreɪʃənl/
translation icon : migratorio
  • Yet because Hansen focused only on the migrational links between Europe and the United States, his story was "American, not universal."

Examples

  • Researchers are studying the migrational routes of different bird species to understand their adaptation to climate change.

  • In this shifting of focus, we are moving into an arena of world history with a migrational perspective.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Historians of immigration from Europe, for example, have examined this migrational process.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Data are shown as the mean SD; *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01 compared with the control group. Migrational changes after treatment with cytokines.

    Academic text (2018)
  • This article analyzes the migrational patterns of a population of market vendors as a way of examining the relationship between small cities and their hinterlands in Latin America.

    Academic text (1990)
  • For example, (n4) for a silicon atom diffusing on Si(001), the migrational barrier for the motion is E A approximately equal to 0.65 eV in the temperature range from room temperature to 300 Celsius.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The documentary examined the migrational habits of the monarch butterfly as it travels thousands of miles each year.

  • The migrational patterns of wildebeest across the Serengeti are a spectacular natural event that attracts tourists every year.

Synonyms

nomadic
vsmigrational
22 4.9

People who move from place to place instead of living in one home

describes general relation to movement rather than a continual group lifestyle
migratory
vsmigrational
16 5.2

Animals that move from one place to another at certain times of the year to feed or breed

is broader, describing any relation to movement of people or animals
wandering
vsmigrational
3.9

Moving from place to place rather than living in one place

is broader, covering relation to movement rather than aimless travel or roaming

Antonyms

46 2.9

Not moving and staying in one place

Surface Forms

migrational positive

Morphology

migrational = migration (transparent) = migrate + ion + al

The adjective is regularly formed from 'migration' with the suffix '-al', so its meaning 'relating to migration' is easy to infer.

Etymology

The word migrational comes from the root migr-, from a Latin verb meaning 'to move', and you see the same root in common words like migrate and migrant. So migrational describes things that relate to the movements or journeys of animals or people.