GROUNDFISH

groundfish, bottom fish

(noun) fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

groundfish pl (plural only)

(fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor

Verb

groundfish (third-person singular simple present groundfishes, present participle groundfishing, simple past and past participle groundfished)

(fishing) To fish for groundfish

Source: Wiktionary



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