Free-swimming

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to swim about freely. not-comparable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of animals) able to swim about; not attached wordnet

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"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."

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