krill

From Norwegian kril (“fry of fish”).

• IPA^(key): /kɹɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪl

krill (plural krill or krills)

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

• Antarctic krill
• northern krill

• krill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• https://web.archive.org/web/20021218082407/http://www.ecoscope.com/krill/

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krill m (plural krills)

1. krill

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrilː]
• Rhymes: -ilː

krill (plural krillek)

1. krill

• világítórák

• (non-standard since 2005) kril

Uncertain, related to dialectal kril (krusning); compare with Icelandic kríli.

krill m (definite singular krillen, indefinite plural kriller, definite plural krillene)

1. krill, several species of crustacean plankton of the order Euphausiacea.
2. (dialectal) synonym of småsild (sprats)

• kril (Nynorsk)

• “krill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “krill_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

krill m (plural krills or krill)

1. krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)

From Norwegian krill.

krill n

1. (usually collectively) krill

• krill in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• krill in Svensk ordbok (SO)