the seabed

noun

: the ground that is at the bottom of the sea

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The new mining vehicle features engineering enhancements designed to overcome the challenges of the seabed. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025 Hektoria rests on an ice plain, where sliding ice glides over flat sediment on the seabed. Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025 About how, close to the coast, it would be buried below the seabed at a depth of two meters. Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025 Methane has been measured escaping from crevices in the seabed at a high rate as the region warms at unprecedented rates, according to a paper published in Nature Communications. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the seabed

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