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Definition of bottom-dwelling in English: bottom-dwellingadjective (of an aquatic organism) living on or near the bed of the sea, a lake, or other body of water. Example sentencesExamples - Shellfish and other bottom-dwelling animals, for instance, are fed by the nutrient fallout from above and by currents from the side.
- He argues that bilaterian body plans originated and radiated on the seabed rather than floating or swimming in water and that we should seek the fossil evidence among bottom-dwelling forms.
- Excessive loads of silt and other sediments caused by erosion can suffocate bottom-dwelling plants and animals.
- So they'll eat just about any type of bottom-dwelling organism, including snails, sea cucumbers and the occasional rock.
- Sphyraena barracuda will feed on both bottom-dwelling species as well as species of the higher water column.
- They do not seem to have the conventional design of bottom-dwelling fishes, although they are often depicted in that fashion.
- This, plus the reduced amount of oxygen in the water, would help account for the extinction of bottom-dwelling microorganisms.
- Both seas show examples of gigantism among their simpler, bottom-dwelling creatures.
- The Common Skate, a slow-growing bottom-dwelling fish found in shallow coastal waters, is described as almost fished to extinction in the Irish Sea.
- The toll extends to the loss of oysters and other bottom-dwelling organisms - important food sources for herons and other wading birds - as well as fish and sea turtles that depend on the seagrass.
- Pounding on the bottom worsened the damage and altogether the ship destroyed more than 15,000 square feet of coral and caused widespread destruction of bottom-dwelling organisms and fish habitat.
- Marine gobies are typically bottom-dwelling fish that live in shallow water.
- This would permit survival of an intermittent bottom-dwelling fauna whose activities would result in the mixing of the biogenic input to destroy any lamination.
- From the same family as rays, skates are bottom-dwelling fish usually found in shallow coastal waters.
- As we were getting accustomed to the unusual topography, a pair of bottom-dwelling juvenile batfishes drifted lazily by.
- Don't ignore the seabed to your left, as this is home to all sorts of bottom-dwelling fish, crustaceans, tube worms, anemones and, in the spring and summer months, hordes of juvenile cuttlefish.
- Lobsters are bottom-feeding predators and their diet consists of worms, mussels, snails and other small marine bottom-dwelling organisms.
- These are bottom-dwelling fish with flat, wedge-shaped heads and large pectoral fins which help them to move about on the seabed.
- The dioxin was found in free-range ducks, free-range chickens, a bottom-dwelling fish and a toad.
- The spearer dines on soft-bodied bottom-dwelling fish.
Derivatives noun During feeding, hordes of acanthurids descend on the reef so that attempts by bottom-dwellers to defend their territory are thwarted. Example sentencesExamples - Juveniles, especially in the territorial bottom-dwellers, often possess different, brighter colors than adults of the same species.
- Rays and skates are bottom-dwellers that live on sand or mud.
- A marine family, clinids are mostly bottom-dwellers.
- They look like bottom-dwellers, but there's always a surprise team and it could be Portland.
Definition of bottom-dwelling in US English: bottom-dwellingadjectiveˈbädəmˌdweliNG 1(of an aquatic organism) dwelling on or near the bed of the sea, a lake, or other body of water. Example sentencesExamples - Marine gobies are typically bottom-dwelling fish that live in shallow water.
- Lobsters are bottom-feeding predators and their diet consists of worms, mussels, snails and other small marine bottom-dwelling organisms.
- The spearer dines on soft-bodied bottom-dwelling fish.
- Excessive loads of silt and other sediments caused by erosion can suffocate bottom-dwelling plants and animals.
- Both seas show examples of gigantism among their simpler, bottom-dwelling creatures.
- They do not seem to have the conventional design of bottom-dwelling fishes, although they are often depicted in that fashion.
- This, plus the reduced amount of oxygen in the water, would help account for the extinction of bottom-dwelling microorganisms.
- Don't ignore the seabed to your left, as this is home to all sorts of bottom-dwelling fish, crustaceans, tube worms, anemones and, in the spring and summer months, hordes of juvenile cuttlefish.
- These are bottom-dwelling fish with flat, wedge-shaped heads and large pectoral fins which help them to move about on the seabed.
- He argues that bilaterian body plans originated and radiated on the seabed rather than floating or swimming in water and that we should seek the fossil evidence among bottom-dwelling forms.
- As we were getting accustomed to the unusual topography, a pair of bottom-dwelling juvenile batfishes drifted lazily by.
- Pounding on the bottom worsened the damage and altogether the ship destroyed more than 15,000 square feet of coral and caused widespread destruction of bottom-dwelling organisms and fish habitat.
- The Common Skate, a slow-growing bottom-dwelling fish found in shallow coastal waters, is described as almost fished to extinction in the Irish Sea.
- This would permit survival of an intermittent bottom-dwelling fauna whose activities would result in the mixing of the biogenic input to destroy any lamination.
- The toll extends to the loss of oysters and other bottom-dwelling organisms - important food sources for herons and other wading birds - as well as fish and sea turtles that depend on the seagrass.
- So they'll eat just about any type of bottom-dwelling organism, including snails, sea cucumbers and the occasional rock.
- Sphyraena barracuda will feed on both bottom-dwelling species as well as species of the higher water column.
- The dioxin was found in free-range ducks, free-range chickens, a bottom-dwelling fish and a toad.
- Shellfish and other bottom-dwelling animals, for instance, are fed by the nutrient fallout from above and by currents from the side.
- From the same family as rays, skates are bottom-dwelling fish usually found in shallow coastal waters.
- 1.1 (of a person or organization) characterized by poor, questionable, or unethical performance.
Example sentencesExamples - This is just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.
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