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softbottom

softbottom noun: a soft seafloor, typically composed of muddy sediment.

Noun

softbottom (countable and uncountable, plural softbottoms)

  1. A soft seafloor, typically composed of muddy sediment.
    • Including acoustic backscatter and/or an accurate map denoting hardbottom and softbottom locations may help capture additional, low-relief hardbottom areas, and help improve future Leptoseris predictions.2015 July 9, “Identifying Suitable Locations for Mesophotic Hard Corals Offshore of Maui, Hawai‘i”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of softbottom

pluralsoftbottoms

Origin of softbottom

From soft + bottom.

Questions about softbottom

What does softbottom mean?
Softbottom means a soft seafloor, typically composed of muddy sediment.
What part of speech is softbottom?
Softbottom is a noun.
What is the plural of softbottom?
The plural of softbottom is softbottoms.

Words near softbottom in the dictionary

  1. softboi
  2. softboiled
  3. softbois
  4. softbot
  5. softbots
  6. softbottom
  7. softbottoms
  8. softbound
  9. softbox
  10. softboxes
  11. softboy

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