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

About the degree of your natatory powers we needn’t dispute.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

The maxillipedes, of which the third pair is often still wanting, are not yet brought into the service of the mouth, but appear in the form of biramose natatory feet.

From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz

Thus in the 'Origin,' page 440, there is a description of a larval cirripede, "with six pairs of beautifully constructed natatory legs, a pair of magnificent compound eyes, and extremely complex antennae."

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir