free-living
following a way of life in which one freely indulges the appetites, desires, etc.
Biology. noting an organism that is neither parasitic, symbiotic, nor sessile.
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How to use free-living in a sentence
The same year, 1991, saw Billy Crystal et al as depressed urbanites turned free-living cattle drivers in City Slickers.
Outside the body the rhabditiform embryos develop into a free-living, sexually differentiated generation.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIn the last stage of a life hurried to a termination by free living, dropsical symptoms became the most distressing.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses | William WitheringIn consequence of very free living, had an ascites and swelled legs.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses | William WitheringThe parasitic forms differ anatomically from the free-living worms.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
We see, then, that the origin of all these free-living cells can be traced back to the very earliest of the Metazoa.
The Origin of Vertebrates | Walter Holbrook Gaskell
British Dictionary definitions for free-living
given to ready indulgence of the appetites
(of animals and plants) not parasitic; existing independently
Derived forms of free-living
- free-liver, noun
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