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单词 free-swimming
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Definition of free-swimming in English:

free-swimming

adjective
Zoology
  • (of an aquatic animal) not attached to an object or substrate and able to swim freely.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The free-swimming tadpoles produced by sexual reproduction live only a few days, during which time they can be spread by tidal and storm currents to form new colonies.
    • The eggs of most frogs hatch into aquatic, free-swimming larvae, commonly known as tadpoles.
    • There are more than a thousand described species of golden algae, most of them free-swimming and unicellular, but there are filamentous and colonial forms.
    • A free-swimming roundworm thus looks rather like it is thrashing about aimlessly.
    • These are miniature jaw-like structures that come from a free-swimming worm-like animal, actually more closely related to fishes than to any of the other invertebrates.

Definition of free-swimming in US English:

free-swimming

adjectiveˌfrēˈswimiNG
Zoology
  • (of an aquatic animal) not attached to an object or substrate and able to swim freely.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A free-swimming roundworm thus looks rather like it is thrashing about aimlessly.
    • The eggs of most frogs hatch into aquatic, free-swimming larvae, commonly known as tadpoles.
    • The free-swimming tadpoles produced by sexual reproduction live only a few days, during which time they can be spread by tidal and storm currents to form new colonies.
    • These are miniature jaw-like structures that come from a free-swimming worm-like animal, actually more closely related to fishes than to any of the other invertebrates.
    • There are more than a thousand described species of golden algae, most of them free-swimming and unicellular, but there are filamentous and colonial forms.
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