a. [f. L. ēmigrāt- ppl. stem of ēmigrāre + -ORY: see EMIGRATE v. Cf. Migratory.]
1. Of animals: = MIGRATORY. rare.
1839. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. VII. 189. The great body of this emigratory species … moved southwards.
2. Occupied in emigrating; pertaining to emigration.
1854. H. Miller, Footpr. Creat., xii. (1874), 222. Records of an emigratory process.
1865. W. G. Palgrave, Arabia, I. 288. A large emigratory detachment.
