SEA BOTTOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea bottom mean? 

• SEA BOTTOM (noun)
  The noun SEA BOTTOM has 1 sense:

1. the bottom of a sea or ocean

  Familiarity information: SEA BOTTOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA BOTTOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bottom of a sea or ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Davy Jones; Davy Jones's locker; ocean bottom; ocean floor; sea bottom; sea floor; seabed

Hypernyms ("sea bottom" is a kind of...):

bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bottom"):

abyssal zone (the deep sea (2000 meters or more) where there is no light)

continental shelf (the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent)

bathyal district; bathyal zone; continental slope (the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone)

neritic zone (the ocean waters from the low tide mark to a depth of about 100 fathoms)

twilight zone (the lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach)

 Context examples 

Prior to the new study, Ganymede's rocky sea bottom was thought to be coated with ice, not liquid — a problem for the emergence of life.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)