free-living
Adjective. (biology) (''of an organism'') That lives independently of other organisms rather than part of a symbiotic or parasitic relationship.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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