Free-swimming

Free-swimming
Free-swimming Free"-swim`ming, a. (Zo["o]l.) 1. Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals. [1913 Webster]

2. (Zoology) able to swim about; not attached to a stationary object; -- of aquatic animals. [WordNet sense 1]

Syn: unattached. [WordNet 1.5]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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