variants
or less commonly sea floor
plural seafloors also sea floors
: the floor of a sea or ocean : seabed
The Earth's crust, in this view, is divided into several immense plates that make up the continents and seafloors, and that all float on a hot, plastic, subterranean "mantle."—
Walter Sullivan
Walter SullivanExamples of seafloor in a Sentence
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The dramatic find was uncovered during a standard seafloor survey last year by a leading natural gas company.
—Jns Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2024
These laws require that sharks brought ashore by fishermen have all their fins naturally attached and aim to end the practice of stripping the creatures of their fins and returning them, mutilated, to the water to die on the seafloor.
—Angela Posada-Swafford, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2024
Its hundreds of storage jars, called Canaanite amphorae, spilled into heaps on the seafloor.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Mapping the seafloor is the first step in exploring the unknown depths of our global ocean.
—Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 10 June 2024
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Jns Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2024
These laws require that sharks brought ashore by fishermen have all their fins naturally attached and aim to end the practice of stripping the creatures of their fins and returning them, mutilated, to the water to die on the seafloor.
—Angela Posada-Swafford, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2024
Its hundreds of storage jars, called Canaanite amphorae, spilled into heaps on the seafloor.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Mapping the seafloor is the first step in exploring the unknown depths of our global ocean.
—Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 10 June 2024
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“Seafloor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seafloor. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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