LAKE BOTTOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lake bottom mean? 

• LAKE BOTTOM (noun)
  The noun LAKE BOTTOM has 1 sense:

1. the bottom of a lake

  Familiarity information: LAKE BOTTOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE BOTTOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bottom of a lake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

lake bed; lake bottom

Hypernyms ("lake bottom" is a kind of...):

bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)

 Context examples 

Their findings describe how biological processes in the sediments at the lake bottom transform the methane into carbon dioxide.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

This area, where the water meets the lake bottom, may be vital to the success of ecosystems of subglacial lakes, which are permanently cut off from atmospheric heat and sunlight.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)