Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Able to swim freely; not sessile or attached.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swimming freely: said of any aquatic animal that is not fixed, and particularly of those which are attached at some period of their lives and free at, another: as, the free-swimming embryo of a cirriped; the free-swimming adult of a crinoid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
- adjective (Zoology) able to swim about; not attached to a stationary object; -- of aquatic animals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of animals) able to swim about; not attached
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Examples
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It wasn't until people started to look at them closely that they saw that they were actually animals they had free-swimming young and they digested.
A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief 2010
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Fish with fins and scales are generally free-swimming and are found primarily in healthy, flowing water.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Fish with fins and scales are generally free-swimming and are found primarily in healthy, flowing water.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Fish with fins and scales are generally free-swimming and are found primarily in healthy, flowing water.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Fish with fins and scales are generally free-swimming and are found primarily in healthy, flowing water.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Their larvae are free-swimming and NOT radially symmetrical.
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The free-swimming y-larvae shed their articulated exoskeleton, and a simple, slug - like, pulsing mass of cells emerged.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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More than 700 creatures new to science, ranging from crustaceans and molluscs to carnivorous sponges and free-swimming worms, have been discovered on a series ...
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: Reading Lion Tracks: New York Times' Friedman on Vacation in the Bush 2009
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Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the Weddell Sea provide new insights into the evolution of ocean life.
May 16th, 2007 2007
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Wherever certain species of snails lived, in ditches or ponds or streams, parasitologists came across free-swimming animals that looked like small versions of flukes except that they had great tails attached to their rears.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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