free-living

The same year, 1991, saw Billy Crystal et al as depressed urbanites turned free-living cattle drivers in City Slickers.

Outside the body the rhabditiform embryos develop into a free-living, sexually differentiated generation.

In the last stage of a life hurried to a termination by free living, dropsical symptoms became the most distressing.

In consequence of very free living, had an ascites and swelled legs.

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

We see, then, that the origin of all these free-living cells can be traced back to the very earliest of the Metazoa.