What does the word migratory mean?

    Part of speech: adjective

  • Pertaining to migration; roving.

Usage examples for migratory

  1. How much farther he could not guess; but he knew that the devastations of the migratory locust sometimes cover an area of thousands of miles! – Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid
  2. Above all he wanted to feel the life- currents of Madrid beating about his migratory feet. – Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois
  3. This then is the ordinary migratory distribution. – The History of the European Fauna by R. F. Scharff