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ground⋅ling

  [ground-ling]
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–noun
1. a plant or animal that lives on or close to the ground.
2. any of various fishes that live at the bottom of the water.
3. a spectator, reader, or other person of unsophisticated or uncultivated tastes; an uncritical or uncultured person.
4. a member of a theater audience who sits in one of the cheaper seats.
Origin:
1595–1605; ground 1 + -ling 1
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ground·ling   (ground'lĭng)   
n.  

    1. A plant or an animal that lives on or close to the ground.

    2. A bottom fish.

  2. A person with uncultivated tastes.

  3. A spectator in the cheap standing-room section of an Elizabethan theater.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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