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immigrant, a. and n.|ˈɪmɪgrənt|
[ad. L. immigrānt-em, pres. pple. of immigrāre to immigrate, after emigrant (1754).]
A. adj. Immigrating.
1805Southey Let. to C. W. W. Wynn 6 Apr. in Life (1850) II. 323 To let the immigrant monastics associate together here. 1885E. A. Shäfer in Proc. Roy. Soc. XXXVIII. 90 As to the origin of these immigrant cells, it may be regarded as certain that they have passed inwards from the epithelium. 1897Daily News 31 Aug. 4/7 Both [races] are immigrant, and European, not indigenous to the soil.
B. n. One who or that which immigrates; a person who migrates into a country as a settler.
1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. Pref. 6 There is another deviation from the strict letter of the English dictionaries which is found extremely convenient in our discourses on population... The verb immigrate and the nouns immigrant and immigration are used without scruple in some parts of this volume. Ibid. III. 473. 1809 Kendall Trav. II. lv. 252 Immigrant is perhaps the only new word, of which the circumstances of the United States has in any degree demanded the addition to the English language. a1817T. Dwight Trav. New Eng. etc. (1821) II. 232 Immigrants are crowding to it from New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. 1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 216 The son of Perseus, a foreigner and immigrant into Greece.
attrib.1864D. A. Wells Our Burden & Strength 24 The immigrant landing depot in New York City. 1969Times 18 July 4/8 Wolverhampton's Grove School..was described as the ‘90 per cent immigrant school’. Ibid., There was some criticism..at this high proportion of immigrant children. 1971Economist 12 June 31/2 Those [sc. children] born in England to immigrant parents cease to be classified as immigrant school-children after their parents have been here 10 years, while those born overseas remain within the category no matter how long they have been in England. 1973Times 9 Nov. 2/4 Allowance must be made for immigrant children to adjust to a new social and educational environment.
Add:[B.] 2. Nat. Hist. An animal or plant that has migrated into a given area, esp. one now living there; also, an animal (esp. a bird) that regularly or occasionally migrates into a given area. Cf. migrant n. a, c.
1880W. Senior Trav. & Trout in Antipodes 121 By the 15th of June three thousand young salmon and fifty troutlet immigrants were swimming about, strong, contented, and merry. 1888[see summer n. 4 a (f)]. 1903Jrnl. Geol. XI. 474 The Gastropoda may be immigrants to the marine habitat in Cambrian time. 1953E. P. Odum Fund. Ecol. vi. 144 Recall also how Gause produced predator-prey oscillations by regular introduction of ‘immigrants’ in cultures that exhibited no oscillations in the absence of immigrations. 1980Jrnl. Marine Biol. Assoc. LX. 39 In this area T[risopterus] esmarki has been recorded only once before, and M[icromesistius] poutassou has always been regarded as an occasional immigrant.
3. Physiol. A cell which has immigrated (*immigrate v. 1 b).
[1885: see immigrant a.] 1888Rolleston & Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) p. xxviii, The cells arise..as immigrants (mesenchyme cells), from the walls of the blastosphere. 1982Anat. Rec. CCII. 92/1 One day after labeling the spleen, about 35{pcnt} of the thymic immigrants were either in the wall or directly beside venules in the corticomedullary junction. |