seabed

«seabed» in Mova's school dictionary: the ground at the bottom of the sea — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the seabed, seabeds)

meaning for a pupil

The seabed is the ground at the bottom of the sea. tree →

sense in the lessons

Science and geography: the seabed has sand, mud, rocks, coral and mountains; deep-sea creatures, shells and shipwrecks lie on it. Divers and robot submarines explore the seabed. Phrases: on the seabed, the ocean floor, deep seabed, sink to the seabed.

examples

• The shipwreck lies on the seabed. tree →
• Crabs crawl across the seabed. tree →
• Divers searched the seabed for treasure. tree →
• The anchor sank to the seabed. tree →
• Some fish hide in the sand of the seabed. tree →
• Robots map the deep seabed. tree →

note

One word (also «sea bed»). Usually with «the». Similar: ocean floor, sea floor. «Bed» here means bottom, as in riverbed.

In the corpora

• Walruses find clams on the dark seabed with hundreds of sensitive whiskers and suck them out of their shells.
• Sonar sends sound pulses down and listens for echoes from the seabed or fish; dolphins and bats use echoes in a similar way.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «seabed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.