Medical Dictionary
free–living
adj free–liv·ing \ˈfrē-ˈliv-iŋ\
Medical Definition of FREE-LIVING
1
: not fixed to the substrate but capable of motility <a free–living protozoan>
2
: being metabolically independent : neither parasitic nor symbiotic
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