Sandbed

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A thick layer of sand, whether deposited naturally or artificially.

    "There are also less commonly observed mollusks, such as pelagic heteropods, thecostomes, pteropods, and gymnosomes that live in the open sea, worm like solenogasters that live on reefs, and scaphopods that build tusk-like shells and live in sandbeds."

  2. 2
    The bed into which the iron from a blast furnace is run.

Example

More examples

"There are also less commonly observed mollusks, such as pelagic heteropods, thecostomes, pteropods, and gymnosomes that live in the open sea, worm like solenogasters that live on reefs, and scaphopods that build tusk-like shells and live in sandbeds."

Etymology

From sand + bed.

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