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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |