Synonyms for natatory

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ney-tuh-tawr-ee-uh l, -tohr-, nat-uh- or ney-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-, nat-uh-

Phonetic Transcription : ˌneɪ təˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-, ˌnæt ə- or ˈneɪ təˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr-, ˈnæt ə-

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Définition of natatory

Origin : 1816, from natatory (adj.), from Latin natatorius, from natator "swimmer" (see natatorium) + -al.

As in aquatic : adj occurring in water
As in swimming : adj existing in liquid

Example sentences :

And yet 'this natatory art' is but little cultivated amongst us.
Extract from : « The Hero of the Humber » by Henry Woodcock

I had confidence enough in my natatory powers to make me easy on that score.
Extract from : « The Boy Tar » by Mayne Reid

About the degree of your natatory powers we needn't dispute.
Extract from : « Gwen Wynn » by Mayne Reid

The eyes were probably stalked, the antennae and mandibles biramous and natatory, and both armed with masticatory processes.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various

They are free and natatory when young, but in the adult state attached to rocks or some floating substance.
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

In this family a great number of natatory vesicles are connected with the terminal arial vesicle, as in Fig. 101, Praya diphys.
Extract from : « The Ocean World: » by Louis Figuier

They have four short legs, of which the hinder have toes, united by a natatory membrane, and only three claws to each foot.
Extract from : « Reptiles and Birds » by Louis Figuier

Confident in his natatory powers, he had at first believed this feat to be not only possible, but probable and easy.
Extract from : « The Ocean Waifs » by Mayne Reid

Its exact position likewise varies, for it arises either between the first or second pairs of natatory legs.
Extract from : « A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) » by Charles Darwin

In this fig. 3, it may be observed that the natatory legs and caudal appendages of the pupa have not as yet been moulted.
Extract from : « A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) » by Charles Darwin

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