Definitions for free-living

free-living free-liv·ing

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IPA: /ˈfriˈlɪv ɪŋ/

Free-Living is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 331 anagrams from letters in free-living (-eefgiilnrv).

Definitions for free-living

adjective

  1. following a way of life in which one freely indulges the appetites, desires, etc.
  2. Biology. noting an organism that is neither parasitic, symbiotic, nor sessile.

Origin of free-living

First recorded in 1810-20

Examples for free-living

Temperature responses in free-living amphibians and reptiles in northeastern Kansas.

Among the free-living non-pathogenic forms much larger examples are found.

Up to the present no intentional practical utilization of this valuable property of these free-living forms has been made.

A population of free-living voles under observation on the Campus at Lawrence was parasitized only by Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes.

Hence they behave within the plant-cell just like the free-living chromacea in the water.

Slightly less than half of the free-living individuals studied grew in the season of hatching.

Known dates for nesting of free-living females were distributed rather evenly through the month of June.

Temperature responses in free-living amphibians andreptiles of northeastern Kansas.

The parasitic forms differ anatomically from the free-living worms.

The most common arthropods in the nests were mites (parasitic, predaceous, and free-living) and springtails.

Word Value for free-living
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Words with friends

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