{"id":30162,"date":"2020-08-16T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T14:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30162"},"modified":"2020-08-16T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T14:18:54","slug":"word-of-the-day-597","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/08\/16\/word-of-the-day-597\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Anadromous<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>going from salt water to fresh water or up rivers to spawn: said of salmon, shad, etc.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/anadromous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Your Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/oceanconservancy.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/prehistoric-ocean-animals-still-around-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>These Prehistoric Ocean Animals are Still Around Today<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; <em><strong>Ocean Currents<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since lampreys are anadromous fish (fish that live in fresh and saltwater), they play a major role in healthy estuaries\u2014transporting nutrients from the ocean to freshwater environments.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ir.library.oregonstate.edu\/downloads\/44558d67v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Due to increased human disturbances, lampreys are severely declining, which has the potential to affect entire ecosystems.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The usage might be a bit inaccurate. Does the definition, as understood by marine biologists, include the requirement that the fish die after the spawning?<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t JN]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anadromous: going from salt water to fresh water or up rivers to spawn: said of salmon, shad, etc. [Your Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;These Prehistoric Ocean Animals are Still Around Today,&#8221; Ocean Currents: Since lampreys are anadromous fish (fish that live in fresh and saltwater), they play a major role in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/08\/16\/word-of-the-day-597\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30164,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30162\/revisions\/30164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}