groundfishes

Variant of groundfish

groundfish definition

ground·fish (-fis̸h′)

noun pl. groundfish -·fish′

a fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, specif. one that is edible and lives in the sea, as a cod or haddock

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