seabed

Definitions

sea + bed, using bed in its old sense of 'the bottom or base on which something rests' — the same bed as in riverbed and flowerbed. So the seabed is the floor of the sea.

Common Collocations

• 1.seabed mining海底采矿
• 2.seabed mapping海床测绘
• 3.on the seabed在海底
• 4.seabed sediment海床沉积物

Example Sentences

• 1.

  Cables run for thousands of miles along the seabed.

• 2.

  Scientists are mapping the seabed in great detail.

• 3.

  The wreck has rested on the seabed for over a century.