bottom-feeder bottom-dweller | a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water |
bottom-feeder | a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain |
bottom lurkers | a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
groundfish bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
bottom freighter merchantman merchant ship | a cargo ship, they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms |
carton | a box made of cardboard, opens by flaps on top |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
c buttocks nates arse butt backside bum buns can fundament hindquarters hind end keister posterior prat rear rear end rump stern seat tail tail end tooshie tush bottom behind derriere fanny ass a d | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on, he deserves a good kick in the butt, are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing? |
bottom line | the decisive point |
bottom round | cut from the round, suitable for pot roast |
Foggy Bottom | United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River |
bottom underside undersurface | the lower side of anything |
bottom | the lowest part of anything, they started at the bottom of the hill |
rock bottom | the absolute bottom |
bed bottom | a depression forming the ground under a body of water, he searched for treasure on the ocean bed |
bottomland bottom | low-lying alluvial land near a river |
bottom quark beauty quark | a quark with a charge of - and a mass about , times that of an electron |
lake bed lake bottom | the bottom of a lake |
ocean floor sea floor ocean bottom seabed sea bottom Davy Jones's locker Davy Jones | the bottom of a sea or ocean |
riverbed river bottom | a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river |
bottom dog | a person of low status |
bottom feeder | an opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others |
bottom rot fungus Corticium solani | fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce |
bottom line | the last line in an audit, the line that shows profit or loss |
bottom fermentation | a slow kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature low enough that the yeast cells can sink to the bottom of the fermenting liquid, used in the production of lager |
carton cartonful | the quantity contained in a carton |
bottom rot | fungous disease of lettuce that first rots lower leaves and spreads upward |
bottom fermenting yeast | brewer's yeast used in bottom fermentation of lager |
bottom bottom of the inning | the second half of an inning, while the home team is at bat |
penetrate fathom bottom | come to understand |
bottom | strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom |
bottom out | hit the ground, the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road |
bottom out | reach the low point, Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while |
bottom | provide with a bottom or a seat, bottom the chairs |
copper-bottom | provide with a copper bottom, copper-bottom a frying pan |
bottom | the lowest rank, bottom member of the class |
reduced rock-bottom | well below normal (especially in price) |
bottom(a) | situated at the bottom or lowest position, the bottom drawer |
bell-bottomed bell-bottom bellbottom | (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom, bell-bottomed trousers |
flat-bottomed flat-bottom | having a flat bottom, a flat-bottomed boat |
round-bottomed round-bottom | having a rounded bottom, round-bottom flasks |
bottom-up | of an approach to a problem that begins with details and works up to the highest conceptual level, bottom-up parser, a bottom-up model of the reading process |
bottom-dwelling | of or relating to fish and marine life that dwell on the bottom of a body of water |
bottom-feeding | of or relating to fish and marine life that feed on the bottom of a body of water |
at heart at bottom deep down inside in spite of appearance | in reality, she is very kind at heart |