seafloor
noun
sea·floor
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Definition of seafloor
: seabed
Examples of seafloor in a Sentence
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Outside of Aquarius on the seafloor, team members tried out a number of new devices for possible use in space. — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, "NASA Scientists and Astronauts Practice for Space Missions on the Seafloor," 29 July 2019 Jellyfish begin their lives much like their cousins, as sessile polyps anchored to the seafloor, scrounging for food in the passing currents. — Quanta Magazine, "Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex," 8 Jan. 2019 The summit’s attendees have been to the bottom of the seafloor, the top of Earth’s tallest mountains, and even outer space. — Georgia Frances King, Quartz, "The world’s most famous explorers on how they handle high-stress situations," 14 Aug. 2019 At some point in the next decade, a large, tractor-like device will start crawling the deepest seafloor, gathering potato-sized nuggets packed with metals crucial to electric vehicles, renewable-energy storage and smartphones. — Adam Minter, Twin Cities, "Adam Minter: Big Tech needs to save the deep seas," 11 Aug. 2019 In 2017, archaeologists in Egypt discovered three Roman-era shipwrecks and other stunning ancient artifacts on the Mediterranean seafloor off the coast of Alexandria. — Fox News, "Stunning cargo-laden ancient shipwrecks discovered off Greek island," 10 Aug. 2019 Over the course of three days, Boaty traveled more than 111 miles along a seabed ridge known as the Orkney Passage, where warm and cold water mix deep on the seafloor off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Results of Boaty McBoatface’s First Research Mission Published," 20 June 2019 Some 290 million years ago, as the last trilobites scuttled across the seafloor, the skies above grew just a little more ominous. — Quanta Magazine, "Asteroid Rate Jumped in Solar System’s Past," 17 Jan. 2019 At approximately 66 feet long and 33 feet wide, the site lies virtually flat to the seafloor, according to NOAA. — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, "NOAA researchers discover two unexplored shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico," 30 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'seafloor.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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seafloor
noun
English Language Learners Definition of seafloor
: the ground that is at the bottom of the sea
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