krill
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- noun
- /krɪl/
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kril
- These phytoplankton then become food for countless microscopic grazers, including copepods and krill, which in turn feed a huge swath of marine life.
- krill-eating fish
So if you are eating fish, fish krill and then like fish eggs, do you like sushi?
- So if you are eating fish, fish krill and then like fish eggs, do you like sushi?
- You see, like those sand fleas and limpets and krill, though these krill in particular are dead and helping the fleas, like all of us, waving a hand like a answer.
- It's shocking how how effective krill oil is because it's it's red, it's rich, rich in astaxanthin and it makes the Omega threes work even better.
Examples
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Annual winter sea-ice cover has decreased over the last 50 years, and the regional warming has reduced krill abundance, altering the marine food web (Loeb et al. 1997, Smith et al. 1999).
Academic text (2008) -
The myriad uses for krill raise concerns that overharvesting will alter the Southern Ocean ecosystem.
Academic text (2010) -
What possible difference could one krill make?
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There's plenty more krill in the sea!
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And the biomass of all of these krill is estimated to be huge.
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But there weren't enough fish, never enough krill.
Fiction book (2000) -
The echo sounder uses sonar to detect krill swarms in the water column.
Blog text (34) -
Great whales are major consumers of krill (Euphausia superba), which account for about half of the herbivorous zooplankton, by weight, in Antarctic waters.
Academic text (1990) -
To the untrained eye, larval cephalopods resemble alien heads, krill look like diminutive shrimp, and amphipods look like tiny pill bugs.
Academic text (2011) -
Blue whales feed on krill, small crustaceans that are found in large swarms.
Synonyms
Small sea animals like shrimp that often glow and form large groups eaten by many whales
Surface Forms
Etymology
Krill comes from a Norwegian word krill meaning 'small fish' or 'young fish', a name sailors used for tiny shrimp-like sea animals. That's why krill means the very small, shrimp-like creatures that many large animals, like whales and penguins, eat.