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