DEEP-SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deep-sea mean? 

• DEEP-SEA (adjective)
  The adjective DEEP-SEA has 1 sense:

1. of or taking place in the deeper parts of the sea

  Familiarity information: DEEP-SEA used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP-SEA (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or taking place in the deeper parts of the sea

Context example:

deep-sea exploration

Similar:

marine (relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea)

 Context examples 

Deep-sea sediment in which more than 25% of the fraction coarser than 5 microns is of terrigenous, volcanogenic, and/or neritic origin.

(Hemipelagic sediments, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The skeletons of planktonic foraminifers are preserved in large numbers in deep-sea sediments, providing a rich fossil record of the environmental conditions of the upper ocean.

(Planktonic Foraminifera, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Lord Cochrane seemed to be expressing the views of all, for a murmur of assent, with a mutter of hearty, deep-sea curses, ran round the circle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Studying life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Japan's island of Okinawa, microbiologists led by a team from the University of Vienna found that certain microbes thrive in conditions similar to those on Enceladus.

(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)

So it doesn't make sense for deep-sea octopuses to brood eggs in warm water, scientists say: That's usually suicide.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)

The team used geologic records from deep-sea drilling cores recovered using the NSF-funded research drillship JOIDES Resolution to extend the astronomical time scale by about eight million years.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)

The deep-sea voices of these men, rumbling and bellowing in the confined space, produced a wild effect.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In this case I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The NSB contains some of the oldest sedimentary rocks known on Earth which likely formed part of an iron-rich deep-sea hydrothermal vent system that provided a habitat for Earth's first life forms between 3,770 and 4,300 million years ago.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Deep-sea octopuses usually live in cold waters.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)