groundling

Meanings

Plural: groundlings

Noun

• in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially
• An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
• A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
• 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.
• One who is confined to the ground, especially:
• A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.
• One who is confined to the ground, especially
• Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

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