krill

«krill» in Mova's school dictionary: tiny shrimp-like sea animals that live in huge groups in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (krill — plural is the same, usually uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Krill are tiny shrimp-like sea animals that live in huge groups in cold oceans and are food for whales, penguins, seals, fish and seabirds. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on food chains, krill are a key link: they eat tiny plankton and are eaten by many bigger animals; a blue whale eats tonnes of krill a day. Krill live especially in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. They show how the smallest animals can hold up a whole food web.

examples

• Blue whales eat millions of krill. tree →
• Krill are tiny animals that look like shrimp. tree →
• Penguins in Antarctica feed on krill. tree →
• Krill eat plankton, and whales eat krill. tree →
• Huge swarms of krill can turn the sea pink. tree →
• If krill disappeared, many sea animals would go hungry. tree →

note

Same form for one and many: «one krill, a lot of krill». Krill are invertebrates (crustaceans), not fish. In a food chain: plankton → krill → whale.

In the corpora

• The blue whale, the biggest animal ever, eats tiny krill, up to several tonnes a day.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «krill» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.