"krill" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kɹɪl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-krill.wav Forms: krill [plural], krills [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪl Etymology: From Norwegian kril (“fry of fish”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|no|kril||fry of fish}} Norwegian kril (“fry of fish”) Head templates: {{en-noun|krill|s}} krill (plural krill or krills)
  1. any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca. Categories (lifeform): Crustaceans Derived forms: Antarctic krill, northern krill Translations (small marine crustacean): крил (kril) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 磷蝦 (Chinese Mandarin), 磷虾 (línxiā) (Chinese Mandarin), krill [common-gender] (Danish), krill (Dutch), krilli (Finnish), Krill [masculine] (German), illeraq (Greenlandic), krill (Hungarian), világítórák (Hungarian), ljósáta (Icelandic), kríli [neuter] (Icelandic), crill [masculine] (Irish), 沖醤蝦 (okiami) (alt: オキアミ) (Japanese), オキアミ (okiami) (Japanese), kōura rangi (Maori), kōurariki (Maori), uraura (Maori), táłtłʼááh chʼoshchilí (Navajo), krill [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kril [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kryl [masculine] (Polish), krill [masculine] (Portuguese), криль (krilʹ) [masculine] (Russian), kril [masculine] (Slovene), kril [masculine] (Spanish), lysräka [common-gender] (Swedish), lyskräfta [common-gender] (Swedish), krill [common-gender] (Swedish), เคย (kəəi) (Thai), cril [masculine] (Welsh)

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        "common-gender"
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      "word": "lyskräfta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small marine crustacean",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "krill"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kəəi",
      "sense": "small marine crustacean",
      "word": "เคย"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "small marine crustacean",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cril"
    }
  ],
  "word": "krill"
}

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