单词 | free-living |
释义 | free-ˈliving, a. 1. Living freely and abundantly, given to free indulgence of the appetites.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xvi, ‘He was a gude servant o' the town..though he was an ower free-living man’. 1935G. Greene Basement Room 40 Any child in those free-living parts might be expected to play truant. 2. Biol. Living free from and independent of the parent.
1889in Century Dict. 1912J. S. Huxley Individ. in Anim. Kingdom ii. 38 Free-living animals, the Protozoa. 1915E. R. Lankester Divers. Nat. 113 It is this change from the life of a free-living shrimp to that of a living lump, adherent by its head to rocks or floating logs. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 352 (caption) Free-living polyzoa. |

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