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

In the Cyclopidae the posterior antennae have lost their secondary branch, and the mandibles have completely thrown off the previously existing natatory feet, whilst in the other families these appendages persist, more or less altered.

From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz

They may, however, be natatory as in many Ostracoda and Copepoda, or prehensile, as in some Copepoda.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

Perhaps this natatory clothing had kept him above water, while the surf had borne him to shore?

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules