Synonyms for krill
krɪlkrill

Princeton's WordNet

1. krillnoun

   shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales

Matched Categories

1. • Malacostracan Crustacean

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1. List of paraphrases for "krill":

   kirill

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How to use krill in a sentence?

1. Frida Bengtsson of Greenpeace:

   But from pollution and climate change to industrial krill fishing, humanity's footprint is clear, these results show that even the most remote habitats of the Antarctic are contaminated with microplastic waste and persistent hazardous chemicals.

2. Rick Thoman:

   It affects the whole food web from the algae to the krill on up.

3. Claire Parkinson:

   Sea ice also affects the polar ecosystem, including penguins and whales and seals, petrels and albatrosses, krill, and a whole range of additional animals and marine plant life.

4. Elizabeth Beneloga:

   The whale sharks in Oslob have been in our waters since time immemorial, the fishermen feed the whale sharks only to attract them to the water's surface -- it's a small amount of krill, and the feeding stops in the afternoon.