seabed

noun

sea·bed ˈsē-ˌbed

variants or less commonly sea bed

plural seabeds also sea beds

: the floor of a sea or ocean : seafloor

This atoll is the summit of an undersea volcano that rises from the seabed 10,000 feet below the surface.—

Kennedy Warne

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During the twentieth century, decades of looting by divers and unlicensed salvage companies stripped some seabeds clean. —

Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 Instead of taking regular steps when entering shallow waters, individuals shuffle their feet along the sandy seabed. —

Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024 By March 5, 2022, as a winter worthy of Game of Thrones approached, 80 percent of the search box — covering 120 square miles of seabed — had been explored with no success. —

Sean Kingsley, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024 Its holdings include much of the UK’s seabed, and with it rights to grant permissions to build offshore wind farms, lay pipelines, and store carbon under the seabed. —

Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for seabed