euphausiacea

English Thesaurus

1. small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	animal order,
definition	:	the order of animals (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	krill,
definition	:	shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	euphausia pacifica,
definition	:	food for jellyfish (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	malacostraca, subclass malacostraca,
definition	:	largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies (noun.animal)