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FISH LADDER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does fish ladder mean?

• FISH LADDER (noun)
The noun FISH LADDER has 1 sense:

1. a series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam

Familiarity information: FISH LADDER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FISH LADDER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fish ladder" is a kind of...):

passage (a way through or along which someone or something may pass)

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