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Definition of Natatorial
1. a. Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming; as, natatorial birds.
Definition of Natatorial
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to swimming. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Natatorial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Natatorial
Literary usage of Natatorial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation": Its Argument Examined and Exposed by Samuel Richard Bosanquet (1845)
"The five tribes of the order are completed, the Vespertilionidae being
shifted (provisionally) into the natatorial place, for which their appropriateness is ..."
2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"The five first abdominal segments are fused together ; but the last is free and
of large size, forming, with the'lateral fins, a powerful natatorial organ. ..."