Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The collection of small marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea that are the principal food of baleen whales.
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- noun any of several small
marine crustacean species ofplankton in theorder Euphausiacea in theclass Malacostraca
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- noun shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Krill oil is an oil extracted from shrimp-like crustaceans called krill.
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Their definition of forage fish includes fishes, squids, and the shrimp-like crustaceans called krill that swarm in cold waters where they feed everything from seabirds to whales.
Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers Carl Safina 2012
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Antarctica was the antithesis of the jungle or the rain forest, where everything burgeoned and mutated and thousands of species and tens of thousands of * A krill is a small, shrimplike marine crustacean and a vital constituent of the Antarctic food chain.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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The sex lives of the ocean-dwelling crustaceans known as krill have been largely a mystery.
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Their definition of forage fish includes fishes, squids, and the shrimp-like crustaceans called krill that swarm in cold waters where they feed everything from seabirds to whales.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Carl Safina 2012
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Krill oil is an oil extracted from shrimp-like crustaceans called krill.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Craig Cooper 2011
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Asper says about a half-dozen dead shrimp-like creatures known as krill were atop a sample taken two miles south of the well - but there's no way to tell whether oil killed them.
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Asper says about a half-dozen dead shrimp-like creatures known as krill were atop a sample taken two miles south of the well - but there's no way to tell whether oil killed them.
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Asper says about a half-dozen dead shrimp-like creatures known as krill were atop a sample taken two miles south of the well - but there's no way to tell whether oil killed them.
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The whales feed on small sea creatures known as krill, which in turn eat microscopic marine algae.
corylusavellana commented on the word krill
Apparently there's been a large increase in the commercial krill catch in recent years. Licensed to krill?
March 6, 2009