krill

From Dutch kriel (“puny/tiny”), applied to fish fry (in the sense of hatchlings); sometimes interpreted as "whale food".

• IPA^(key): /kɹɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

krill (plural krill or krills)

1. any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

• Antarctic krill
• northern krill

• Wikipedia article on krill
• http://www.ecoscope.com/krill

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrilː]

krill (plural krillek)

1. krill

• világítórák

Of uncertain origin, related to dialectal kril (krusning); compare with Icelandic kríli.

krill m (definite singular krillen, indefinite plural kriller, definite plural krillene)

1. krill, several species of crustacean plankton of the order Euphausiacea.
2. (dialectal) synonym of småsild (sprats)

• kril (Nynorsk)

• “krill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “krill_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

krill m (plural krills or krill)

1. krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)

From Norwegian krill.

krill n

1. krill