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hardbottoms

hardbottoms is the plural of hardbottom.

Meaning of hardbottom

Noun

hardbottom (countable and uncountable, plural hardbottoms)

  1. A hard seafloor, typically a layer of sand covering rock.
    • Measures of seafloor topographic complexity were used as a proxy for the availability of hardbottom, since a comprehensive map of hard and soft seafloor sediments was also not readily available.2015 July 9, “Identifying Suitable Locations for Mesophotic Hard Corals Offshore of Maui, Hawai‘i”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about hardbottoms

What is hardbottoms the plural of?
Hardbottoms is the plural of hardbottom.

Words near hardbottoms in the dictionary

  1. hardboiled
  2. hardboot
  3. hardboots
  4. hardbop
  5. hardbottom
  6. hardbottoms
  7. hardbought
  8. hardbound
  9. hardcase
  10. hardcases
  11. Hardcastle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hardbottoms (page history and authors); hardbottom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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