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Definition of Free-living
1. Adjective. Not parasitic on another organism.
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Independent
Definition of Free-living
1. Adjective. (biology) (''of an organism'') That lives independently of other organisms rather than part of a symbiotic or parasitic relationship ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-living
Literary usage of Free-living
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A free-living SPOROPHYTE. So far the shoot only of the
sporophyte has been the subject of discussion : it remains to consider the ..."
2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"CHAPTER XV free-living NEMATODES Bv NA COBB US Department of A ... Even the
free-living soil and water nematodes have become adapted to an astounding ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"Sexual Phenomena in the free-living Nematodes. (Preliminary note. ... free-living
nematodes, of the two genera mentioned before, exist wherever sufficient ..."
4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT AND MIGRATION OF THE
free-living STAGES OF HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS By JH ROSE Ministry of Agriculture, ..."
5. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by J(ohn) Payne Collier (1866)
"... St. John's College, Cambridge, and we never hear of him but in his capacity
of an author, and as the companion of the free-living young men of his day. ..."
6. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"free-living ROOTS. Less known, however, is the occurrence of free-living roots,
that is to say of roots which do not spring from a shoot. ..."
7. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"A third way of explaining the affinities shown by certain parasitic genera to
the free-living forms, is to be found in the similarity of conditions of life; ..."
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