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Free-swimming   Listen
adjective
Free-swimming  adj.  (Zool.)
1.
Swimming in the open sea; said of certain marine animals.
2.
(Zoology) Able to swim about; not attached to a stationary object; of aquatic animals.
Synonyms: unattached.





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"Free-swimming" Quotes from Famous Books



... are animals which have become simple through degeneration, due to the adoption of a sedentary life, the withdrawal from the crowd of animals and from the struggle which it necessitates. The young tunicate is a free-swimming, active, tadpolelike, or fishlike creature, which possesses organs very like those of the adult of the simplest fishes or fishlike forms. That is, the sea squirt begins life as a primitively simple vertebrate. It possesses in its larval stage a notochord, the delicate structure which precedes ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks


Words linked to "Free-swimming" :   animal, animate being, vagile, fauna, unattached, brute, beast


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