free-swimming

Speech parts

1. free-swimming - Adjective

2. free-swimming - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unattached oceanic surface floating aerial pelagic deep-water freestyle subsurface uncommitted vagile planktonic limnetic midwater benthopelagic
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Antonyms

sessile

Examples

After hatching, the free-swimming embryo spends about a week absorbing a relatively small amount of yolk. Source: Internet

Sea lice are ectoparasites which feed on mucus, blood, and skin, and migrate and latch onto the skin of wild salmon during free-swimming, planktonic nauplii and copepodid larval stages, which can persist for several days. Source: Internet

Fertilized eggs hatch into free-swimming trochophore larvae. Source: Internet

Guppy fry Live-bearing aquarium fish, often simply called livebearers, are fish that retain the eggs inside the body and give birth to live, free-swimming young. Source: Internet

Live-bearing aquarium fish, often simply called livebearers, are fish that retain the eggs inside the body and give birth to live, free-swimming young. Source: Internet

Surface-living animals (such as sea otters) need the opposite, and free-swimming animals living in open waters (such as dolphins) need to be neutrally buoyant in order to be able to swim up and down the water column. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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