Definition of swim

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Swim (v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed..

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Cyphonautes :: Cyphonautes (n.) The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa..
Zoospore :: Zoospore (n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore..
Pulmograde :: Pulmograde (a.) Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae..
Transnatation :: Transnatation (n.) The act of swimming across, as a river..
Bipinnaria :: Bipinnaria (n.) The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage.
Glaucus :: Glaucus (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white..
Thaliacea :: Thaliacea (n. pl.) A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum..
Floaty :: Floaty (a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Medusa :: Medusa (n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.
Swimming :: Swimmeret (n.) One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming..
Atlanta :: Atlanta (n.) A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
Lernaeacea :: Lernaeacea (n. pl.) A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix..
Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
Water Monitor :: Water monitor () A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors..
Down :: Down (adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound..
Wing :: Wing (n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming..
Natatorial :: Natatorial (a.) Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming; as, natatorial birds..
Swimmingly :: Swimming (n.) Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head..
Water Beetle :: Water beetle () Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidae. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars..
Aquatic :: Aquatic (a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls..
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