Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, adapted for, or characterized by swimming.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swimming or adapted for swimming; natatory; specifically, of or pertaining to the Natatores.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
swimming .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His experience as a medal-winning Olympic swimmer has made him the go-to guy at J.P. Morgan for things natatorial.
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Snakes are in many cases arboreal (tree-climbing) but some are natatorial (swimming).
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One can learn to swim without describing his sensations to every casual acquaintance or hunting up the natatorial columns in the newspapers.
Different Girls Various
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They have no squeamishness whatever about his watching their own natatorial duties; why, then, should he shrink within himself and wave them off?
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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He was a master of the natatorial art, but he was not amphibious, and soon would have to come to the surface or die.
Footprints in the Forest Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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Now I wish to say further that it is a fact within the knowledge of more than one that a person who did not know how to swim has, upon being precipitated into deep water, struck out like a master of the natatorial art.
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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I well remember how proud I felt on the occasion when I first accomplished this natatorial feat.
The Boy Tar Mayne Reid 1850
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If an animal, for example, is the suctorial member of a circle of species, forming the natatorial type of genera, forming a family or sub-family which in its turn is rasorial, its qualities must evidently be greatly mingled and ill to define.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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The five tribes of the order are completed, the vespertilionidae being shifted (provisionally) into the natatorial place, for which their appropriateness is so far evidenced by the aquatic habits of several of the tribe, and the lemuridae into the suctorial, to which their length of muzzle and remarkable saltatory power are highly suitable.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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An enumeration of some other examples of the natatorial type, as the cephalopoda (instanced in the cuttle-fish) in the mollusca; the crustacea (crabs, &c.) in the annulosa; the owls
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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