arribadas
|ar-ri-ba-da|
/ˌærɪˈbɑːdə/
(arribada)
mass arrival for nesting
Etymology
'arribada' originates from Spanish, specifically the word 'arribada', where 'arribar' meant 'to arrive' or 'to come ashore'.
'arribada' entered English as a loanword from Spanish, adopted by biologists and conservationists to describe the specific phenomenon of turtles arriving ashore en masse to nest.
Initially, in Spanish it referred generally to an 'arrival' or 'coming ashore', but in English usage it has become specialized to mean the mass nesting event of sea turtles.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a mass, synchronous nesting event in which many female sea turtles come ashore at the same time to lay eggs (especially used for olive ridley and Kemp's ridley turtles).
Arribadas of olive ridley turtles occur on certain beaches, where thousands of females nest together in a single night.
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