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Meaning of "free-swimming"
free-swimming (verb): refers to the action of swimming without any restrictions or limitations, typically used in the context of marine life or aquatic animals moving independently in water
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- Able to swim about freely.
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They also feed on free-swimming crustaceans.
Numerous molts follow while the larva is free-swimming.
This is fertilised by a free-swimming male cyprid larva.
The sexes are separate and the larval stage is free-swimming.
They lack a free-swimming pelagic larval phase.
The young emerge from these capsules as free-swimming larvae.
The fry will be free-swimming after the fifth day.
One of our priorities is keeping divers warm in free-swimming situations.
The tadpoles are free-swimming and feed on algae growing on submerged rocks.
Development then proceeds with a free-swimming larval stage.
It is a free-swimming epipelagic species found near the surface of the water.
Volutes do not have a free-swimming larval stage.
The free-swimming schools tend to contain large individuals and are mono-specific.
Fertilized eggs hatch into free-swimming trochophore larvae.
The free-swimming tiny zoea larvae can float and take advantage of water currents.
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Both adaptations suit their free-swimming oceanic lives.
The larvae are free-swimming and their pelvic fins are elongated into filaments.
The larvae emerge from the capsules as free-swimming young or as crawling young.
As they are free-swimming and before their scales have begun to grow.
Young grow rapidly and will be free-swimming in six to seven days.
It mainly captures prey off the bottom, but also opportunistically takes free-swimming prey.
Each sea nettle is either in a free-swimming stage or a polyp stage.
The polyps can reproduce asexually, budding to form either more polyps or free-swimming medusae.
The majority of living crinoids are free-swimming and have only a vestigial stalk.
The cercariae are released from the snail host into water and are also free-swimming.
The enhancing of nitrification with free-swimming carriers was studied on this thesis.
A nursery helps to entangle the young for a few days before they become free-swimming.
They are mostly aquatic and include both free-swimming and attached animals.
The larvae are free-swimming and have the pelvic fins with elongated filaments.
Within hours of fertilisation, the eggs develop into free-swimming planktonic larvae.
The sporophyte produces free-swimming haploid spores by meiosis that germinate into haploid gametophytes.
Division euglenophyta is part of an ancestral and diversified eukaryotic lineage of free-swimming flagellate protists.
Any such flows must have enveloped free-swimming as well as bottom-dwelling organisms.
These tiny free-swimming fish maintain a nearly vertical position in the water on their journey upwards.
In about six days the young are free-swimming and will seek out food.
Sharks, and other free-swimming predators were studied using cameras attached to cannisters filled with bait.
The young are moved to a pit where they are free-swimming four to six days further.
The cercariae are free-swimming in the surrounding water until they find their definitive host, a human.
When it finds the right spot, it transforms from a free-swimming larva into a young coral.
After hatching, the free-swimming embryos spend about a week absorbing a relatively small amount of yolk.
This study used tiny samples of skin tissue from wild, free-swimming whale sharks.
In some, eggs develop into free-swimming larvae that look very similar to echinoderm larvae.
The prime sonar will be active since the noise from free-swimming divers is low.
Only the parasitic Gastrodes has a free-swimming planula larva comparable to that of the cnidarians.
They remain with their host throughout their development and do not experience a free-swimming phase.
Recently, a photographer captured spectacular footage of a free-swimming Caribbean Roughshark in its natural habitat.
The male protects the eggs and fry, but normally is removed after they become free-swimming.
Jellyfish, common name for free-swimming medusae of INVERTEBRATES of phylum CNIDARIA.
Biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal from wastewaters - Enhanching nitrification with free-swimming carriers.
Examples of fossil crinoids that have been interpreted as free-swimming include Marsupitsa, Saccocoma and Uintacrinus.
