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Meaning of abyssal plain in English:

abyssal plain

noun

Oceanography

  • An extensive level area of the deep ocean floor, typically situated between the foot of the continental rise and an oceanic trench and covered with a smooth layer of sediment.

Origin

Late 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), biologist and science educationist.