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free-swimming

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

How To Use free-swimming In A Sentence

  • They also go through a second larval stage called the veliger stage, which is also a free-swimming stage. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • The body of an echiuran lacks annelid-type segmentation, but the distinctive free-swimming trochophore larval stages of echiurans and polychaetes are very similar.
  • The free-swimming larva settles and undergoes metamorphosis into a juvenile sponge.
  • Eggs are produced and hatch inside the daughter sporocysts, releasing free-swimming miracidia.
  • Fish with fins and scales are generally free-swimming and are found primarily in healthy, flowing water. Modern Science in the Bible
  • The eggs of most frogs hatch into aquatic, free-swimming larvae, commonly known as tadpoles.
  • Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the Weddell Sea provide new insights into the evolution of ocean life. May 16th, 2007
  • It wasn't until people started to look at them closely that they saw that they were actually animals – they had free-swimming young and they digested. A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
  • 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.
  • The free-swimming y-larvae shed their articulated exoskeleton, and a simple, slug - like, pulsing mass of cells emerged. Archive 2008-05-01
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