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  • noun swimmer

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who travels through the water by swimming

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Examples

  • In it, I present a new subspecies of Homo sapeins genetically engineered for life in the sea, H. sapiens natator.

    "I will battle for the sun..." yuki_onna 2009

  • I do thank everyone who suggested slang/derisory terms for the bioengineered subspecies of humans, Homo sapiens natator.

    "I will battle for the sun..." yuki_onna 2009

  • I've never read Watts, but his deep-adapted humanoids has me rethinking my Homo sapiens natator story.

    Eye Candy greygirlbeast 2009

  • _ ` Pugnat in adversas ire natator aquas_, 'yea, lustily for thy life, child.

    Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820

  • He noted that Chrome, itself, already does this when a natator uses Chrome in its more stealthy Incognito mode.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Germar is of opinion that this is the same as natator, F.; but on comparison, I find it to ditfer in many small characters, the most obvious one of which is the colour of the epipleura, that of the natator being light piceous, whilst in the analis it is of a bronzed black, &c.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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