bottom-dwelling

1. 1.

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

Questions about bottom-dwelling

What does bottom-dwelling mean?

bottom-dwelling means "of or relating to fish and marine life that dwell on the bottom of a body of water".

How many syllables are in bottom-dwelling?

bottom-dwelling has 4 syllables and divides as bot-tom--dwel-ling 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.

Is bottom-dwelling a common word?

bottom-dwelling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.