benthic

Plural: benthics

Adjective

• Relating to the bottom of a sea or lake.
• of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water

Adj

• Pertaining to the benthos; living on the seafloor, as opposed to floating in the ocean.

Noun

• Any organism that lives on the seafloor.

Examples

• His word choices were benthic, dredged from the obscure depths of the lexicon.

Synonyms

benthal, benthonic

Antonyms

planktonic

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