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The geographic route along which birds customarily migrate
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flyway
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Flyway is a prominent American literary magazine founded by Stephen Pett in 1995. It is based at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa . Genre editors included Sheryl St. Germain, Debra Marquart, Andie Dominick, Sam Pritchard, and Gary Whitehead. Flyway became ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bird migration path," 1891, from fly (v.1) + way (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A migratory route used by birds between breeding areas.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate [syn: migration route ]
Usage examples of flyway.
The car topped the rise onto the flyway, slipped sideways through a gap in the traffic, and settled into the passing lane.
Irish Point, the train chugging down the center of the flyway that gleamed like an oil slick in the headlights and the silver glare of the rising moon.
She watched them, trying not to think too much, until the flyway split away to either side, ramps spiraling down to the ground roads, and the shuttle itself dipped toward the terminus.
That was there, all right, less likely than an accident on the flyway but worse to contemplate, brain miswired, or damaged, leaving her a drooling idiot.
Ahead, the flyway gleamed like a dirty mirror in the cloudy light, reflecting the grey of the sky.
My thought was, we head out to the flyway, head north to the first truck stop, sleep over in a capsule there.
Clean again, Cerise refused to eat there, claiming that there was a better plaza further along the flyway, and Trouble was too tired to argue.
To her surprise, however, Cerise was right: the Eight-Ball Cafe, built on a median set between the two lanes of the flyway, proved to be both clean and relatively friendly.
I suppose: anybody can use the flyway going out, but to come in you have to make your entry talisman known to the watch demon or else have one of the residents propitiate him for you.
Michael pulled into the parking lot across the flyway from the Devonshire dump.
While we continue to do our utmost, I suggest you also pursue every flyway that occurs to you.
The cyclone was a giant storm that intruded into the flyway, narrowing it to less than one-quarter its normal six thousand kilometer width.
They would be literally hugging the northern cloud wall of the flyway during the passage.
The laminar flow that marked the flyway came to an abrupt end at the cloud wall.
His flight had started high above the North Temperate Belt flyway, but the downdraft had cost him ten kilometers of altitude.