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groundling

The correct spelling is groundling.

How to pronounce groundling

noun

Say it like: Gro-wnd-lin-g

The correct spelling is groundling. Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:

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Definition

noun

  1. 1.Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:
  2. 2.An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
  3. 3.(by extension) A person of uncultivated or uncultured taste.
  4. 4.One who is confined to the ground, especially:
  5. 5.(Abrahamic religions) Adam, before eating the apple of knowledge of good and evil (emphasizing his creation from the ground).

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