seafloor

or sea floor

[ see-flawr ]

noun

1. the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seafloor¹

First recorded in 1850–55; sea + floor

Example Sentences

There, Bova and her colleagues collected sediment cores from the seafloor spanning hundreds of thousands of years of climate history.

From Popular-Science

If ancient bobbit worms did terrorize the seafloor back then, their burrows are a rare example of invertebrates hunting vertebrates — usually it’s the other way around.

From Science News

It took the trio four years to create their iconic cartographic masterpiece, an unparalleled, panoramic visualization that continues to shape how both scientists and the public think about the seafloor.

From Science News

New seafloor is created at the center of the oceans and lost as plates sink back into the planet’s interior.

From Science News

Instead, the somewhat-clean water is then dumped into the Pacific Ocean via a five-mile pipe along the seafloor.

From Voice of San Diego

Researchers are also exploring how deep-sea trenches bury carbon and other chemicals in the seafloor.

From The Daily Beast