catadromous

1. 1.

   migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn

   Antonymsdiadromousanadromous

Questions about catadromous

What does catadromous mean?

catadromous means "migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn".

How many syllables are in catadromous?

catadromous has 4 syllables and divides as ca-ta-dro-mous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of catadromous?

The recorded antonyms are diadromous, anadromous.

Is catadromous a common word?

catadromous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.