Tiny animals such as krill eat plankton.
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Krill
//kɹɪl//
Synonyms for "krill" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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33 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- крил noun (small marine crustacean)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 磷蝦 /磷虾 noun (small marine crustacean)
Danish
1 entries- krill noun (small marine crustacean)
Dutch
1 entries- krill noun (small marine crustacean)
Finnish
1 entries- krilli noun (small marine crustacean)
German
1 entries- Krill noun (small marine crustacean)
Greek
1 entries- κριλ noun (small marine crustacean)
Greenlandic
1 entries- illeraq noun (small marine crustacean)
Hungarian
2 entries- krill noun (small marine crustacean)
- világítórák noun (small marine crustacean)
Icelandic
2 entries- kríli noun (small marine crustacean)
- ljósáta noun (small marine crustacean)
Indonesian
2 entries- geragau noun (small marine crustacean)
- udang geragau noun (small marine crustacean)
Irish
1 entries- crill noun (small marine crustacean)
Japanese
2 entries- オキアミ noun (small marine crustacean)
- 沖醤蝦 noun (small marine crustacean)
Māori
3 entries- kōura rangi noun (small marine crustacean)
- kōurariki noun (small marine crustacean)
- uraura noun (small marine crustacean)
Navajo
1 entries- táłtłʼááh chʼoshchilí noun (small marine crustacean)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- krill noun (small marine crustacean)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kril noun (small marine crustacean)
Polish
1 entries- kryl noun (small marine crustacean)
Portuguese
1 entries- krill noun (small marine crustacean)
Russian
1 entries- криль noun (small marine crustacean)
Slovene
1 entries- kril noun (small marine crustacean)
Spanish
1 entries- kril noun (small marine crustacean)
Swedish
3 entries- krill noun (small marine crustacean)
- lyskräfta noun (small marine crustacean)
- lysräka noun (small marine crustacean)
Thai
1 entries- เคย noun (small marine crustacean)
Welsh
1 entries- cril noun (small marine crustacean)
Sample sentences
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Fish and even whales and seals feed on the krill.
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In some parts of the ocean, krill populations have dropped by over 80 percent.
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Krill like to breed in really cold water near sea ice.
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