lakebed

or lake bed

[ leyk-bed ]

noun

1. the bottom or floor of a lake.

Example Sentences

Over the last three decades, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been carrying out extensive dust mitigation projects on the dry lakebed at Owens Lake, and has invested about $2.5 billion in the efforts.

From Los Angeles Times

With less water running off fields and into the sea, growing stretches of dry lakebed are being exposed to desert winds that kick up lung-damaging dust.

From Los Angeles Times

In other areas, thousands of hay bales have been placed in rows on the lakebed to help control dust.

From Los Angeles Times

According to Choi’s arrest affidavit, on July 4, 2023, Choi posted a YouTube video showing himself pressing a “fire missiles” button with two women flying in a helicopter over El Mirage Dry Lakebed, causing fireworks to shoot at a Lamborghini sports car on the ground.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1913, paleontologists digging in a remote lakebed in South Australia unearthed the 50,000-year-old bones of a giant, flightless bird—a species previously unknown to science.

From Science Magazine