noun
small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill
• Syn: ↑Euphausiacea
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Malacostraca, ↑subclass Malacostraca
• Member Meronyms: ↑krill, ↑Euphausia pacifica
Useful english dictionary. 2012.