Usually means: Not dependent on another organism.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. free-living: Merriam-Webster
  2. free-living: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. free-living: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. free-living, free-living: Collins English Dictionary
  5. free-living: Vocabulary.com
  6. free-living: Wordnik
  7. free-living: Wiktionary
  8. free-living: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. free-living: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. free-living: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. free-living: Dictionary.com
  12. Free-living: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Free-living: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. free-living: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. free-living: Rhymezone
  16. Free-living: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. free-living: FreeDictionary.org
  18. free-living: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. free-living: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. free-living: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. free-living: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. free-living: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (free-living)

adjective:  (biology) Of an organism: living independently of other organisms rather than as part of a symbiotic or parasitic relationship, either as a life stage (for example, in some parasites) or for the organism's entire lifespan.

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