sea-bottomn.
The bottom or lowest depth of the sea; a tract of ground covered by a sea.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > tract of ground covered by sea
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a1400–50 Alexander 5532 How he miȝt seke doun sounde in-to þe see bothom.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 64 Alpheüs..Vnder seabottoms this passadge ferreted.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) iii. 50 The heterogeneous deposit of a former sea-bottom.
1885 F. J. Child Ballads II. 50/1 A mermaid, from the sea-bottom, cries out to him.
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