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krill (kril)

noun pl. krill

any of an order (Euphausiacea) of small, pelagic, shrimplike malacostracan crustaceans, the main food of baleen whales

Etymology: Norw kril, young fry (of fish)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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