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
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Another theory is that the mako may have ventured unusually close to the seafloor, where the octopus could have mistaken it for a rock or another surface to hide on.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
The seafloor beneath, previously covered by 209 square miles of ice, had never before been accessible to humans.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
The goal was to document a seafloor famously lush in seagrass, corals, turtles, dugongs, rays and sharks.
—Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) sailed to Antarctica to study the nearby seafloor, the creatures that live there and the way climate change is affecting Antarctic ice and the ecosystems that evolved around it.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
The seafloor beneath, previously covered by 209 square miles of ice, had never before been accessible to humans.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
The goal was to document a seafloor famously lush in seagrass, corals, turtles, dugongs, rays and sharks.
—Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) sailed to Antarctica to study the nearby seafloor, the creatures that live there and the way climate change is affecting Antarctic ice and the ecosystems that evolved around it.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Seafloor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seafloor. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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