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Free-living   Listen
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free-living  adj.  (Biology) Living independently of other organisms; not parasitic or commensal. Note: eating other organisms is not considered "dependence" in this sense.
Synonyms: nonparasitic, nonsymbiotic.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Free-living" Quotes from Famous Books



... correspondencies, not with him only, but with other Divines mentioned in her last Will. Her Mother was, upon the whole, a good woman, who did credit to her birth and her fortune; and was able to instruct her in her early youth: Her Father was not a free-living, or free-principled man; and both delighted in her for those improvements and attainments, which gave her, and them in her, a distinction that caused it to be said, that when she was out of the family, it was considered but as ...
— Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript • Samuel Richardson



Words linked to "Free-living" :   biological science, nonparasitic, nonsymbiotic, biology, independent



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