noun
- the bottom or floor of a lake; the ground surface beneath a lake's water
Usage: often written as two words (lake bed) or hyphenated (lake-bed), though single-word form is increasingly common
Examples
- Geologists studied the lakebed to understand the region's geological history.
- The drought exposed the rocky lakebed that had been underwater for decades.
- Fish and aquatic plants live on the lakebed.
- Sediment accumulated on the lakebed over thousands of years.
- Divers explored the lakebed to search for artifacts from the sunken ship.
- The lakebed was covered with mud and decomposing organic matter.