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free-swimming

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free-swim·ming (frswmng)
adj.
Able to swim freely; not sessile or attached: the free-swimming larva of the oyster.
free-swimmer n.
free-swimming
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (of aquatic animals or larvae) not sessile or attached to any object and therefore able to swim freely in the water
free-swimmer  n
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Adj.1.free-swimming - (of animals) able to swim about; not attached
unattached
animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
vagile - having freedom to move about; "vagile aquatic animals"


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