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free-living

ADJECTIVE
  1. not parasitic on another organism

How To Use free-living In A Sentence

  • Herds of mixed age and sex, varying in size from 100 to 10000 animals, are free-living and range in natural mountain pasture all year round. Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway
  • In Shakespeare's "Henry IV," the rotund, free-living Falstaff character was known as Plump Jack, famous for his speech defending jovial indulgences--"banish plump Jack and banish all the world. To Ski Or Not To Ski
  • How small can a free-living organism be?
  • Unlike other arachnids, which are free-living, a large number of acarines have developed intimate associations with other animals.
  • You remember how Stevens passed out last year — free-living and easy, everybody's friend but his own. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
  • Systematic review of dietary intervention trials to lower blood total cholesterol in free-living subjects.
  • They constitute a large family that includes both parasitic and free-living varieties.
  • It appears that originally free-living green bacteria were hijacked into plant cells, where they eventually evolved into what we now call chloroplasts. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • They commonly occur as free-living, photosynthetic and marine unicells and also include endosymbiotic, parasitic, heterotrophic and freshwater taxa.
  • With inimitable style, Lovelace describes a stomach as “flopping like a halibut in an ice chest,” and rain falling on a roof “like a giant herd of tiny, tiny horses running circles of free-living gallop.” The OLM Blog
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