Associations to the word «Krill»

Wiktionary

KRILL, noun. Any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

Dictionary definition

KRILL, noun. Shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats