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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fish, such as a catfish, carp, or flounder, that lives on or near the bottom of a body of water.
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- noun fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)
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