"free-swimming" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1885, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 32, page 418",
          "text": "It is a most remarkable fact that almost all these shore animals in their early development from the egg pass through free-swimming larval stages which are closely alike in form for very widely different zoological groups.",
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          "ref": "2008, Frank R. Spellman, Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, page 715",
          "text": "The presence of free-swimming and stalked ciliates, some flagellates, and rotifers in mixed liquor indicates a balanced, properly settling environment.",
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        "Able to swim about freely."
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        "(biology) Able to swim about freely."
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  "word": "free-swimming"
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          "ref": "1885, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 32, page 418",
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        "Able to swim about freely."
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        "(biology) Able to swim about freely."
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  "word": "free-swimming"
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