Definition of "bottom-dwelling" [bottom-dwelling]

• Of or relating to fish and marine life that dwell on the bottom of a body of water (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "If one added up all the Tea Party parties that were held today, they would not have totalled the attendance of a bottom-dwelling MLB team on a bad day."
• "United's head coaching job in the offseason, has been put in charge of bottom-dwelling Bundesliga side Moenchengladbach."
• "When that combination, known as DilBit, spilled out of the ruptured pipeline, the benzene and other chemicals in the mixture went airborne, forcing mandatory evacuations of surrounding homes many of which were later bought by Enbridge because their owners couldn't safely return, while the thick, heavy bitumen sank into the water column and coated the river and lake bottom, mixing with sediment and suffocating bottom-dwelling plants, animals, and micro-organisms."