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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabed/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabed/#x1)
- Crabs crawl across the seabed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabed/#x2)
- Divers searched the seabed for treasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabed/#x3)
- The anchor sank to the seabed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabed/#x4)
- Some fish hide in the sand of the seabed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabed/#x5)
- Robots map the deep seabed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabed/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/5/)
- [Sonar sends sound pulses down and listens for echoes from the seabed or fish; dolphins and bats use echoes in a similar way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seabed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.