Definition of "lakebed" [lakebed]

• The floor of a lake. (noun)

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• "The lakebed is already someone's lakefront garden, even if it is now 800 yards from the lake."
• "In Washington State organic produce is strictly controlled as to quality and here people were buying "organic" produce grown on toxic lakebed soil unfit for that usage."
• "When, according to "Jimbo", the lake dried up, the climate would change and the valley with its dried up lakebed would become unbearably hot and cold and unlivable and almost immediately after Mr. Bentein left for Mazatlan, the lake miraculously refilled and now Jim is experiencing a water crisis in Mazatlan."