Free-swimming

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Free-swimming \Free"-swim`ming\, a. (Zool.)
     1. Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine
        animals.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zoology) able to swim about; not attached to a stationary


        object; -- of aquatic animals. [WordNet sense 1]
  
     Syn: unattached.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  free-swimming
       adj : (of animals) able to swim about; not attached [syn: {unattached}]