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migrant, a. and n.|ˈmaɪgrənt|
[ad. L. migrant-em, pr. pple. of migrāre to migrate.]
A. adj. Migrating; given to migration.
a. of animals; spec. of birds.
1672Sir T. Browne Let. Friend §4 Passager and migrant birds..whom no seas nor places limit. 1768Pennant Zool. II. 278 They [Grosbeaks] visit us only in hard winters, and are not regularly migrant. 1842P. Parley's Ann. III. 306 The usual watering-places of the migrant animals. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xxxvi. 651 Do you wonder we felt ourselves more like happy migrant birds than ever?
b. of persons, a tribe.
1807J. Barlow Columb. ii. 178 And migrant tribes these fruitful shorelands hail. 1899B. King Ital. Unity I. 84 Migrant labourers came in gangs from the hills in harvest-time.
B. n. One who or something which migrates.
a. A migratory animal; spec. a bird of passage.
1768Pennant Zool. II. 511 The migrants of this genus continue longest in Great-Britain in the southern counties. 1876A. R. Wallace Geog. Distrib. Anim. I. i. i. 20 The chaffinch is a constant resident in England..; but a migrant in the south of France.
b. A person who migrates; rarely † a traveller.
1760Foote Minor Ded., Wks. 1799 I. 225 The unhappy migrants may be..at least hospitably entertained. 1864R. A. Arnold Cotton Fam. 383 To facilitate migration from the cotton districts, and to direct the migrants to the best markets for their labour.
c. Bot. A plant whose distribution has changed or extended.
1905F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. 319 Migrant, a plant that is migrating or invading. 1960N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. vi. 165 These recent migrants were aided by natural means—wind, water or animals—or by Man, through intentional or accidental importation. |