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free-swimming en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) 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:
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