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Definition of Free-swimming
1. Adjective. (of animals) able to swim about; not attached.
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Similar to: Vagile
Medical Definition of Free-swimming
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-swimming
Literary usage of Free-swimming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... free-swimming ciliated embryo, X 600: X SOO, (Saville Kent.) condition of the
embryo, X 600; 19, later Mage, ..."
2. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"... wading dinosaurs (Trachodon), with stalking limbs and elevated bodies. Third,
there are more fully aquatic, free- swimming forms with crested skulls ..."
3. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1911)
"Free- swimming young oyster or oyster- larva, showing the head, with its tuft of
cilia projecting from between the two shells, / and r. new generations. ..."
4. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"E. Review of the Organisation of the free-swimming Larva (Figs. 168-173 A).
It should be mentioned that there is considerable variation in the degree of ..."
5. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate ...by William Saville Kent by William Saville Kent (1882)
"49, free-swimming animalcule, x 1500; 50, animalcule fixed by distal termination
of the single flagellum, the dotted outline indicating the ..."
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