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immigrant an animal or plant that lives or grows in a region to which it has recently migrated immigrant [′im·ə·grənt] (ecology) An organism that settles in a zone where it was previously unknown. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Once when he sat down to chat, he told us that in the immigrant car ahead there was a family from `across the water' whose destination was the same as ours. A few immigrant wagons, diverted from the highways of travel by the fame of the new diggings, halted upon the slopes of Devil's Spur and on the arid flats of the Ford, and disgorged their sallow freight of alkali-poisoned, prematurely-aged women and children and maimed and fever-stricken men. Butler, and by Andrew Carnegie, who, from a poor immigrant boy had arisen to be the book-giver of the world. |
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