anadromous
A Word with Greek Root, Prefix or Suffix
drom
A Word with Greek Root, Prefix or Suffix
anadromous
moving up from salt water to fresh water to spawn, said of salmon
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Dissection of anadromous
anadromous = ana- (according to; back, up, upon, again) + drom (a running; course; track) + -ous (full of, of)
anadromous = moving up along a course
anadromous = extended further to mean (of fish) moving up from salt water to fresh water to spawn
Now Repeat my Dissection
anadromous = moving up along a course
anadromous = extended further to mean (of fish) moving up from salt water to fresh water to spawn
Important roots for this word:
ana-
drom
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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