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- adjective of or relating to fish and marine life that dwell on the bottom of a body of water
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Examples
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She's angling for the Dollar Fish, a green, bottom-dwelling creature that all political anglers deny either fishing for or catching.
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She also showed pictures of oil-choked bottom-dwelling creatures.
Rocky Kistner: Dead Baby Dolphins and Oil Wash in on the Gulf Coast Rocky Kistner 2011
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New England -- Expand upon the first-year conservation success of sectors cooperative fishing groups in order to restore cod and other bottom-dwelling species that play a vital role in the region's economy and culture.
Lee Crockett: The Bottom Line: New Year's Resolution 2012: Let's Gain Weight in the Ocean Lee Crockett 2012
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If we had to stay in Hollywood, we'd be reminded daily of our newly earned bottom-dwelling status; back East, we only have to deal with the ongoing scorn of our loved ones.
Rick Schwartz: Losing an Academy Award Rick Schwartz 2012
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If we had to stay in Hollywood, we'd be reminded daily of our newly earned bottom-dwelling status; back East, we only have to deal with the ongoing scorn of our loved ones.
Rick Schwartz: Losing an Academy Award Rick Schwartz 2012
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When that combination, known as DilBit, spilled out of the ruptured pipeline, the benzene and other chemicals in the mixture went airborne, forcing mandatory evacuations of surrounding homes many of which were later bought by Enbridge because their owners couldn't safely return, while the thick, heavy bitumen sank into the water column and coated the river and lake bottom, mixing with sediment and suffocating bottom-dwelling plants, animals, and micro-organisms.
Henry Henderson: Pipeline Problems: The Mess Remains One Year After Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Henry Henderson 2011
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United's head coaching job in the offseason, has been put in charge of bottom-dwelling Bundesliga side Moenchengladbach.
Monday kickaround: Charlie Davies, Kevin Payne, Lucien Favre, Mike Zaher, Bob Bradley Steve Goff 2011
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If one added up all the Tea Party parties that were held today, they would not have totalled the attendance of a bottom-dwelling MLB team on a bad day.
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When that combination, known as DilBit, spilled out of the ruptured pipeline, the benzene and other chemicals in the mixture went airborne, forcing mandatory evacuations of surrounding homes many of which were later bought by Enbridge because their owners couldn't safely return, while the thick, heavy bitumen sank into the water column and coated the river and lake bottom, mixing with sediment and suffocating bottom-dwelling plants, animals, and micro-organisms.
Henry Henderson: Pipeline Problems: The Mess Remains One Year After Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Henry Henderson 2011
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If we had to stay in Hollywood, we'd be reminded daily of our newly earned bottom-dwelling status; back East, we only have to deal with the ongoing scorn of our loved ones.
Rick Schwartz: Losing an Academy Award Rick Schwartz 2012
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