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free-swimming
[ free-swim-ing ]
adjective
, Zoology.
- (of aquatic organisms) not attached to a base nor joined in a colony; capable of swimming about freely.
free-swimming
adjective
- (of aquatic animals or larvae) not sessile or attached to any object and therefore able to swim freely in the water
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Derived Forms
- ˌfree-ˈswimmer, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of free-swimming1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
With but few exceptions sponges live in salt water and are never free swimming.
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The first point in the development of Sycandra which deserves notice is the character of the free swimming larva.
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At first they are little free-swimming creatures, feeding on foraminifers and other minute organisms that float about in the sea.
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The same family contains the beautiful violet Ianthina, which also is not a British species, but a free-swimming oceanic snail.
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Through these the eggs are discharged into the water, where they become free-swimming larv, called Pluteus.
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