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softbottom

noun

Etymology

From soft + bottom.

  1. inherited from *bʰudʰmḗn✻ — “bottom”
  2. derived from *butmaz✻ — “bottom; ground”
  3. derived from *butm✻
  4. inherited from botm,bodan — “bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”
  5. inherited from botme,botom
  6. compounded as softbottom — “soft + bottom”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for softbottom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA