bottom-feeding

1. 1.

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

Questions about bottom-feeding

What does bottom-feeding mean?

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

How many syllables are in bottom-feeding?

bottom-feeding has 4 syllables and divides as bot-tom--fee-ding 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-feeding a common word?

bottom-feeding 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.