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groundfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun groundfish has 1 sense
- groundfish(n = noun.animal) bottom fish - fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder); Array is a kind of food fish
CIDE DICTIONARY
groundfish, n. sing. & pl.
Fish that live on the sea bottom, especially commercially important gadoid fishes like cod and haddock or flatfish like flounder. [WordNet 1.5]
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