natatory
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Here are a variety of natatory — that’s swimming related — audiobooks, to dive into this summer.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2022
Enterprising swimming pool managers tempted thither two distinguished amateur natatory females, Gertrude Ederle, famed near Channel-swimmer, and Aileen Riggin, Olympic fancy-diving champion in 1920.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its carapace is but slightly compressed laterally and hairy, as in Sacculina purpurea; the adherent feet are of considerable size, and the natatory feet are wanting, as, in the adult animal, are the corresponding cirri.
From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz
The maxillipedes, of which the third pair is often still wanting, are not yet brought into the service of the mouth, but appear in the form of biramose natatory feet.
From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz
A proof of his natatory powers is found in the fact that Arctic voyagers have observed him swimming about in the open sea full twenty miles from the nearest land!
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William
