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groundling.

Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially

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Meaning & usage

noun

  1. Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially

  2. Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially: The spined loach (Cobitis taenia), weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis), or other member of the loaches.

  3. Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially: The ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.

  4. Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially: A dragonfly of the genus Brachythemis.

  5. Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially: A moth of the genus Condica

  6. An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).

  7. A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.

    broadly

  8. One who is confined to the ground, especially

  9. One who is confined to the ground, especially: A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.

    slang

  10. One who is confined to the ground, especially: A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.

  11. Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

Where this word comes from

From ground + -ling. Compare Old English grundling (“a groundling fish, grundel”).

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