lakebed

Or lake bed

[leyk-bed]

noun

1. the bottom or floor of a lake.

Example Sentences

“The playa,” a nearly six-square-mile patch on a 200-mile Pleistocene era lakebed, is what Burners call the festival zone.

From Salon

The prehistoric lakebed is located about 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, and saw its first motorised race in 1914.

From BBC

Those calling for a solution to raise the lake level include leaders of the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, who estimate that the current shortfall leaves exposed about 2 square miles of dust-spewing lakebed.

From Los Angeles Times

“The most feasible solution is raising the lake level,” said Ann Logan, the district’s air pollution control officer, standing on salt-encrusted lakebed that would be submerged if the target level were achieved.

From Los Angeles Times

On the shores of Lake Toronto, the reservoir behind the state's most important dam – called La Boquilla, a priest leads local farmers on horseback and their families in prayer, the stony ground beneath their feet once part of the lakebed before the waters receded to today's critically low levels.

From BBC