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seacave

seacave noun: a cave that is in or under the sea.

Noun

seacave (plural seacaves)

  1. A cave that is in or under the sea.
    • He took long walks, rambled on the beach, along the base of the cliffs and among the brown sea-caves […]1879, Henry James, chapter 21, in Confidence
    • Her memory moved over the ocean-bed of event like a great octopus, blindly but completely feeling its way into every seacave, rill, estuary […]1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 7, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, page 64

Examples of seacave in a sentence

  • He stepped into a room green as a seacave.1934, C. L. Moore, “Black Thirst”, in Martin H. Greenberg, editor, A Taste for Blood: Fifteen Great Vampire Novellas, New York: Barnes &...
  • […] they wandered into the park where we sat on a bench in the chilly darkness watching the silhouettes float around like sharks in that dark seacave of erotic love.1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 5, in Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, page 140:

Forms of seacave

pluralseacaves
alternative formsea-cave

Origin of seacave

From sea + cave.

Questions about seacave

What does seacave mean?
Seacave means a cave that is in or under the sea.
How do you use seacave in a sentence?
He stepped into a room green as a seacave.
What part of speech is seacave?
Seacave is a noun.
What is the plural of seacave?
The plural of seacave is seacaves.

Words near seacave in the dictionary

  1. seacalves
  2. seacan
  3. seacans
  4. seacatch
  5. seacatchie
  6. seacave
  7. seacaves
  8. seachange
  9. seachanger
  10. seachangers
  11. seachanges

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