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Meaning of abmigration in English:

abmigration

noun

Ornithology

  • The migration of a bird which was born and has wintered in one region to the distant summer breeding area of others of its species.

Origin

1920s; earliest use found in Arthur L. Thomson (b. 1890). From ab- + migration.

Pronunciation

abmigration

/ˌabmʌɪˈɡreɪʃn/