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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/#x1)
- Krill are tiny animals that look like shrimp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/#x2)
- Penguins in Antarctica feed on krill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/#x3)
- Krill eat plankton, and whales eat krill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/#x4)
- Huge swarms of krill can turn the sea pink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/#x5)
- If krill disappeared, many sea animals would go hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «krill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.