BOTTOM-DWELLER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bottom-dweller; bottom-feeder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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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