groundling
/ɡɹˈaʊndlɪŋ/
Frequency: 1.25 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially
noun
Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
noun
Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
noun
Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
noun
Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
noun
An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
noun
A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
noun
One who is confined to the ground, especially
Example Sentences
- "In the pond behind the garden there were plenty of carp and groundlings."
- "[…] the ewe called Tiny Crossed over and touched her, the others turned anxious looks From sniffing the autumn-pinched leaves of the groundling blackberries."
- "Delgard got out the handkerchief again and blew his nose loud enough to alert any bird or groundling within several hundred yards."
- "The BEARDED-LOACH or GROUNDLING. Gobites Barbatula. It is a small fish about five inches long, bearded with six small Threads, three on each side"
- "When you angle for a trout, you are to do it as deep, that is, as near to the bottom as you can, provided your bait do not drag, although a trout will sometimes take it in that posture: if for a grayling, you are then to fish further from the buttom, it being a fish that usually swims nearer to the middle of the water, and lies always loose; or, however, is more apt to raise than trout, and more inclined to raise than to descend, even to a groundling."
- "Fertilized groundling (Misgurnus fossilis) and sturgeon (Acipenser Stellatus) eggs were irradiated (10,000 r) at stages from fertilization to middle gastrulation."