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# krill

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

«krill» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/#m1)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «krill» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/krill/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«krill» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/krill.html) on Mova free.