- a variation of natatorial.
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
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The eyes were probably stalked, the antennae and mandibles biramous and natatory, and both armed with masticatory processes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
In this form the feet remain for a very long time, whilst the abdominal appendages grow into powerful natatory organs, and the eyes, which at first seemed to me to be wanting, into large hemispheres.
From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller
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 William Harvey