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free-living
[ free-liv-ing ]
adjective
- following a way of life in which one freely indulges the appetites, desires, etc.
- Biology. noting an organism that is neither parasitic, symbiotic, nor sessile.
free-living
adjective
- given to ready indulgence of the appetites
- (of animals and plants) not parasitic; existing independently
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Derived Forms
- ˌfree-ˈliver, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of free-living1
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Example Sentences
The same year, 1991, saw Billy Crystal et al as depressed urbanites turned free-living cattle drivers in City Slickers.
Outside the body the rhabditiform embryos develop into a free-living, sexually differentiated generation.
In the last stage of a life hurried to a termination by free living, dropsical symptoms became the most distressing.
In consequence of very free living, had an ascites and swelled legs.
The parasitic forms differ anatomically from the free-living worms.
We see, then, that the origin of all these free-living cells can be traced back to the very earliest of the Metazoa.
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