bottom-dweller

1. 1.

   a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water

   Synonymsbottom-feeder

   Broaderfish

   Narrowermullet

Questions about bottom-dweller

What does bottom-dweller mean?

bottom-dweller means "a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water".

How many syllables are in bottom-dweller?

bottom-dweller has 4 syllables and divides as bot-tom--dwel-ler under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.