free-living

Modifies a noun

• ameba: The exception are some free-living amoebae that normally live and replicate in the environment but under certain circumstances can infect man.
• nematode: At present time the fauna of the free-living nematodes in the basin of Odessa port comprises 30 species, belonging to 4 orders.
• boar: Canadian government site on escaped free-living wild boar in Canada: Info about boar in Manitoba, Canada, that escape from farms.
• organism: Hutchison's team is working to figure out the genetic recipe for creating a free-living organism from scratch.
• animal: W J Hamilton Volume 3 Number 4 November 1994 The welfare of free-living wild animals: methods of assessment.
• specie: The algal partners in lichens can be found living on their own in nature, as free-living species in their own right.

Used with adjective complement

• find: This article will deal therefore with those types found free-living in the freshwater environment.