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Fish Ladder

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Noun

1. fish ladder

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

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Fish Ladder

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noun
a row of ascending pools or weirs connected by short falls to allow fish to pass barrages or dams

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Fish Ladder

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an ascending series of pools so arranged as to permit fish to leap or swim upward from level to level and thus pass over dams and waterfalls

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Fish Ladder

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n.
A series of artificial pools arranged like ascending steps, enabling migrating fish to swim upstream around a dam or other obstruction.

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