Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bathyal_zone

1 sense of bathyal zone

Sense 1
continental slope, bathyal zone, bathyal district -- (the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone)
       => ocean floor, sea floor, ocean bottom, seabed, sea bottom, Davy Jones's locker, Davy Jones -- (the bottom of a sea or ocean)