free-swimming
(of aquatic organisms) not attached to a base nor joined in a colony; capable of swimming about freely.
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How to use free-swimming in a sentence
With but few exceptions sponges live in salt water and are never free swimming.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThe first point in the development of Sycandra which deserves notice is the character of the free swimming larva.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourAt first they are little free-swimming creatures, feeding on foraminifers and other minute organisms that float about in the sea.
The Sea Shore | William S. FurneauxThe same family contains the beautiful violet Ianthina, which also is not a British species, but a free-swimming oceanic snail.
The Sea Shore | William S. FurneauxThrough these the eggs are discharged into the water, where they become free-swimming larv, called Pluteus.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
British Dictionary definitions for free-swimming
(of aquatic animals or larvae) not sessile or attached to any object and therefore able to swim freely in the water
Derived forms of free-swimming
- free-swimmer, noun
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