Usually means: Fish living on the ocean floor.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. demersal: Merriam-Webster
  2. demersal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demersal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demersal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demersal: Wordnik
  6. demersal: Wiktionary
  7. demersal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. demersal: Dictionary.com
  9. Demersal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. demersal: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. demersal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demersal: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demersal: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Demersal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. demersal: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (demersal)

adjective:  (biology) That lives near the bottom of a body of water.
adjective:  Taking place near the bottom of a body of water.
noun:  (biology) Any demersal organism.

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