the seabed

noun

: the ground that is at the bottom of the sea

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Underwater volcano lurks off the Oregon coast The massive undersea Axial seamount volcano reaches more than 3,600 feet above the seabed about 300 miles off Oregon. Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 29 May 2025 Researchers in Scandinavia are developing giant curtains that could be anchored to the seabed to block warm ocean water from melting the undersides of ice shelves in Antarctica. Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025 On one of the robot’s first dives, an anemone-like creature with 8-foot-long billowing tentacles appeared about two feet above the seabed. ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025 Made of mud and sand, these massive underwater sediment waves lie around 3,280 feet below the seabed, researchers reported in a new study. Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for the seabed

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“The seabed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20seabed. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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