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free-swimming

free-swimming adjective: able to swim about freely.

Adjective

free-swimming (not comparable)

  1. Able to swim about freely.
    • It is a most remarkable fact that almost all these shore animals in their early development from the egg pass through free-swimming larval stages which are closely alike in form for very widely different zoological groups.1885, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 32, page 418
    • The presence of free-swimming and stalked ciliates, some flagellates, and rotifers in mixed liquor indicates a balanced, properly settling environment.2008, Frank R. Spellman, Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, page 715

Forms of free-swimming

alternative formfreeswimming

Questions about free-swimming

What does free-swimming mean?
Free-swimming means able to swim about freely.
What part of speech is free-swimming?
Free-swimming is an adjective.

Words near free-swimming in the dictionary

  1. Free-Stater
  2. Free-Staters
  3. free-stone
  4. free-stones
  5. free-style
  6. free-swimming
  7. free-tailed bat
  8. free-tailed bats
  9. free-thinker
  10. free-thinkers
  11. free-thinking

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