FREE-LIVING


Meaning of FREE-LIVING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈfrē-ˈli-viŋ ]

adjective

Date: 1818

1. : marked by more than usual freedom in the gratification of appetites

2.

a. : not fixed to the substrate but capable of motility

a free-living protozoan

b. : being metabolically independent : neither parasitic nor symbiotic

a free-living adult hairworm

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.