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KRILL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("krill" is a kind of...):

malacostracan crustacean (a major subclass of crustaceans)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "krill"):

Euphausia pacifica (food for jellyfish)

Holonyms ("krill" is a member of...):

Euphausiacea; order Euphausiacea (small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill)

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 Context examples: 

That changes in the availability of a preferred food item such as krill can differentially impact otherwise similar species emphasizes our need to better understand the role of behavioral flexibility in Antarctic and other ecosystems.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)