bottom fish

1. 1.

   fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)

   Synonymsgroundfish

   Broaderfood fish

Questions about bottom fish

What does bottom fish mean?

bottom fish means "fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)".

What is another word for bottom fish?

Close synonyms include groundfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bottom fish a common word?

bottom fish 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.