benthic
- a of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water
- Instead, as the author relates in the preamble to his spectacularly orogenous and deeply benthic volume Annals of the Former World (Farrar, Straus Giroux; 696 pages; $35), it .
- The benthic, or bottom-dwelling, plants and animals represent the least-known ecosystem on the planet.
- The benthic, or bottom-dwelling, plants and animals in the oceans represent the least-known ecosystem on Earth.