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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The animals that live upon or in the bottom of the deep sea, below the 500-fathom line, considered collectively: contrasted with the epibenthos, or fauna and flora of the bottom in shallow water, and the mesobenthos, or the inhabitants of the bottom between 100 and 500 fathoms; the abyssal benthos.

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