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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
Sense 1
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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