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• ground fish
  ground fish

  noun

  bottom fish.
• ground-fish
  ground-fish

  verb (used without object)

  bottom-fish.

ground fish

¹ American  

noun

1. bottom fish.

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ground-fish ² American  

[ground-fish] / ˈgraʊndˌfɪʃ /

verb (used without object)

1. bottom-fish.

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Etymology

Origin of ground fish

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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So one hypothesis is that warming waters allowed predatory ground fish into the snow crab range, and that there was a massive predation event.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2022

As permafrost at the bottom of Siberian lakes cracks, water drains into the ground; fish die.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2017

For generations, the fish sliding down this ramp would have been cod, a ground fish that has been caught in these parts since the Pilgrims landed on Cape Cod, and before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2014

There were elegant Atlantic salmon, prehistoric-looking sturgeon and, most numerous of all, lowly river herring, a nutrient-rich forage fish prized by ground fish, bears and birds.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013

Nor the ground fish, plaice, sole, flounders, halibut.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

Similar to ground-fish chum, the coarse menhaden block is ground just once and contains larger particles, great to get the fish into a feeding mood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Relatively inexpensive, ground-fish chum is especially productive for snapper and grouper, Spanish and cero mackerel and other fish that hold on or near structure.

From Time Magazine Archive

The big difference here, compared to ground-fish chum, is that menhaden chum also draws in fish via its prominent, oily trail.

From Time Magazine Archive

It keeps well, and, like all ground-fish, is very tenacious of life.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

In appearance a sluggish ground-fish, it is always immoderately and grossly fat, and at this season is full of roe; its flesh is highly esteemed by the natives.

From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning