Definition of "krill" []

• The collection of small marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea that are the principal food of baleen whales. (noun)

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• "Their definition of forage fish includes fishes, squids, and the shrimp-like crustaceans called krill that swarm in cold waters where they feed everything from seabirds to whales."
• "Krill oil is an oil extracted from shrimp-like crustaceans called krill."
• "Antarctica was the antithesis of the jungle or the rain forest, where everything burgeoned and mutated and thousands of species and tens of thousands of * A krill is a small, shrimplike marine crustacean and a vital constituent of the Antarctic food chain."