nonmigratory
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈmaɪɡrəˌtɔri/
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no migratorio
- Aquatic insects and nonmigratory rainbow trout in the spawning area had much higher levels of the heavy isotopes than insects and trout from above the waterfall.
Examples
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Tagging results also indicate the possibility of a nonmigratory (resident) eastern Florida group, which moves seasonally along the Florida east coast.
Academic text (1994) -
Migratory females moved in a southwesterly direction, while nonmigratory lobsters remained in the local waters for several weeks.
Academic text (1999) -
Fewer than half were still working, and those were mostly the ones detailed to watch nonmigratory animals.
Fiction book (2001) -
Additionally, the nonmigratory nature of scallops makes property rights still more attainable for the cooperative.
Academic text (1993) -
The nonmigratory, forest-dwelling woodland caribou lives in the boreal forest year-round.
Academic text (2012) -
Since these surveys have been conducted over relatively short time periods, when EBS pollock are believed to be in a nonmigratory feeding mode, horizontal migrations are not considered to be a serious source of bias.
Academic text (1994) -
They combined natural history accounts with decadal temperature fluctuation data to show that the species ranges of several nonmigratory butterflies in Europe have shifted poleward over the last 50 to 100 years.
Academic text (2001) -
In nature, the different species have different tendencies to disperse (e.g., migratory versus nonmigratory species) and require different-sized home ranges or territories.
Academic text (1992) -
The prevailing system, in which large aggregations of wildebeests migrate over long distances, has presumably grown out of a nonmigratory system, in which a population's food and water requirements are satisfied more locally.
Academic text (2006) -
The nonmigratory birds build their nests in the same trees each year, showing their commitment to the area.
Synonyms
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2.0
Living in a place as your home
An animal or bird that stays in the same area all year
Living in one place and not moving from it
Antonyms
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5.2
Animals that move from one place to another at certain times of the year to feed or breed
How Migratory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word nonmigratory is made from non- 'not' and migr- 'move', the same root you see in migrate and 'migration'. So a nonmigratory animal is one that does not travel long distances and stays in the same area all year.