krill

English Thesaurus

1. shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	malacostracan crustacean,
definition	:	a major subclass of crustaceans (noun.animal)

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

member meronym	:	euphausiacea, order euphausiacea,
definition	:	small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill (noun.animal)