vagile
IPA: vˈædʒʌɫ
adjective
- (biology) Free to move about.
Examples of "vagile" in Sentences
- The pikas and water shrews and chipmunks and woodrats weren’t so vagile and adventurous as reptiles and birds often are.
- As climate change effects become more pronounced (e.g., degree-day boundaries or mean temperature isotherms shift northward), the more ecologically vagile species are likely to extend their geographic ranges northward [17].
- Secondary regrowth, however, has begun to offer opportunities for dispersal for a wide range of taxa, although significant movements of less vagile species such as salamanders, wildflowers, and land snails might require centuries.