pōʻaiwaiakai
ʻaʻano ｜ stative verb / pō•ʻai•wai•akai /ʻaʻano, Amphidromous, i.e. migrating from fresh to salt water, or from salt to fresh water, at some stage of the life cycle other than the breeding period.
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- He pōʻaiwaiakai ka noho ʻana o ka ʻoʻopu nākea, no ka mea, hānau ʻia ia iʻa ma uka o ke kahawai ma ke ʻano he piohē, a huki ʻia i kai, a ulu he pua, a laila, hoʻi hou i uka o ke kahawai, a ulu he makua. The life of the ʻoʻopu nākea fish is amphidromous since it is born upland in the stream as larvae and taken out to sea where it grows into its post-larvae stage of development, then returns upstream where it becomes an adult.
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