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bottom-dwelling

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to fish and marine life that dwell on the bottom of a body of water

How To Use bottom-dwelling In A Sentence

  • The diet of Atlantic wreckfish consists mainly of large ocean cephalopods, crustaceans, and other bottom-dwelling fishes.
  • Algae then grow on the surface and bottom-dwelling plants, deprived of light and oxygen, die off making the water even more turbid and inhospitable to fish and other life.
  • As we were getting accustomed to the unusual topography, a pair of bottom-dwelling juvenile batfishes drifted lazily by.
  • Ivy, halibut is a white fish like cod but, like γλώσσα, is a flat bottom-dwelling fish. Recipes: Roasted Beet and Thyme Risotto & Halibut Confit with Lemons and Capers (Παντζάρια Ριζότο με Θυμάρι & Ψάρια Κονφί με Λεμόνι και Κάπαρης)
  • Lobsters are bottom-feeding predators and their diet consists of worms, mussels, snails and other small marine bottom-dwelling organisms.
  • Bottom-dwelling grenadiers, hakes, cods, and their relatives use their chin barbels to find bottom-dwelling prey, or animals hunted and killed for food.
  • 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.
  • Marine gobies are typically bottom-dwelling fish that live in shallow water.
  • This species of shark feeds primarily on benthic (bottom-dwelling) invertebrates.
  • Bottom-dwelling shellfish, ammonites, etc., occur within this matrix as a distinguishable, generally macroscopic component.
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