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abyssal plain en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A large expanse of very flat and smooth ocean floor, usually found at depths of 4,600 to 5,500 meters (15,000 to 18,000 feet).
    • Innocuous as it sounds, this note was a starting gun for a resource race on the planet’s last vast frontier: the abyssal plains that stretch between continental shelves deep below the oceans. 2021 September 27, Jonathan Watts, “Race to the bottom: the disastrous, blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea”, in The Guardian:

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abyssal plains Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (5)

hu abisszikus síkság (expanse of flat ocean floor) · fi syvänmeren tasanko (expanse of flat ocean floor) · pt planície abissal (expanse of flat ocean floor) · ca plana abissal (expanse of flat ocean floor) · ga má aibhéiseach (expanse of flat ocean floor)