bottom dwelling
Living on substrate
Bottom dwelling describes organisms that live on or near the floor of a body of water—lakes, rivers, oceans.
Catfish, crabs, and flounder are bottom dwellers.
The term extends figuratively to the lowest social or moral levels: bottom-dwelling criminals, the bottom-dwelling teams in the league.
Also written as one word: bottomdwelling.
- benthicOf the sea bottom
- seafloorOcean's solid base
- muddyObscured by silt
- catfishBarbeled freshwater bottom-feeder
- flounderStruggle awkwardly, or seafood
sediment · detritus · sea cucumber · scavenger · lurking · low life · murky · substrate · crab · lobster · eel · burrowing · silt · ocean floor · deep sea · ocean depths · flatfish · suckerfish
vertical habitat position
bottom dwellingpelagic
Of the open sea
free-swimming · planktonic · open water · open water swimming · mesopelagic
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