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BOTTOM-DWELLER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does bottom-dweller mean?

• BOTTOM-DWELLER (noun)
The noun BOTTOM-DWELLER has 1 sense:

1. a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water

Familiarity information: BOTTOM-DWELLER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BOTTOM-DWELLER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bottom-dweller; bottom-feeder

Hypernyms ("bottom-dweller" is a kind of...):

fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bottom-dweller"):

mullet (bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin)

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