OCEAN BOTTOM

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Meaning:

The bottom of a sea or ocean

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Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("ocean 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 "ocean 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)