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View synonyms for bottom fish
bottom fish
1noun
- any of certain fishes that live at or near the bottom of a body of water, as certain of the cod and related species, the flatfishes, and catfishes.
bottom-fish
2[ bot-uhm-fish ]
verb (used without object)
- to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bottom fish1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
It was evidently a bottom fish of some kind, and resembled a "hammer-head," but with some marked differences.
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It is a bottom fish, feeding mostly on mollusks, which it crushes with the blunt teeth of the throat.
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It is a bottom fish, feeding on crustaceans and small mollusks, and is found wherever they abound on the outer shoals.
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It is a bottom fish, feeding in company with the large groupers on small fishes and crustaceans.
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