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natatorial, a.|neɪtəˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. as natatory a. + -al1.]
1. Of or belonging to swimming.
1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall viii, Mr. Cranium, being utterly destitute of natatorial skill, was in imminent danger of final submersion. 1890Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 26 Mar. 2/4 One of the animals..came off victorious on account of superior natatorial powers.
b. Of organs: Adapted for swimming.
1823Vigors in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 405 note, Podiceps has a true natatorial foot. 1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 74 The gonocalyx..now serves as a natatorial organ. 1871T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 459 It..swims freely about by means of two natatorial feet.
2. Characterized by swimming; esp. in Ornith. of the order of birds called Natatores.
a.1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 334/2 The circle of the Laridæ, no less than that of the natatorial order, has now been traced. 1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci. II. 75/1 Natatorial birds sometimes need very extended flight. 1872H. A. Nicholson Palaeont. 387 In many cases—especially amongst the Natatorial birds [etc.].
b.1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. xxxii. 190 In the Natatorial Isopoda..the last pair of abdominal legs are expanded. 1892Working Men's Coll. Jrnl. Oct. 126 When stocking an aquarium with natatorial insects, give these a separate department.
So nataˈtorious a. []
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxx. 171 The larva of Agrion, which in its tapering body and anal natatorious laminæ represents a shrimp. |