krill

English

An Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɹɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

krill (plural krill)

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

Derived terms

• Antarctic krill
• Northern krill

Translations

small marine crustacean

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磷蝦 (cmn), 磷虾 (cmn) (línxiā)

• Dutch: krill (nl)
• Finnish: krilli (fi)
• Icelandic: ljósáta (is)
• Japanese: オキアミ (ja) (okiami)

• Maori: kōura rangi (mi), kōurariki  (mi), uraura (mi)
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼoshchilí
• Norwegian: krill (no)
• Portuguese: krill m
• Russian: криль (ru) (kril') m
• Spanish: kril m

References

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