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food-fall

food-fall is the alternative form of food fall.

Meaning of food fall

Noun

food fall (plural food falls)

  1. (marine biology) An event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.
    • Klages, Michael; Muyakshin, Sergey; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf (January 2002), “Mechanoreception, a possible mechanism for food fall detection in deep-sea scavengers”, in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, volume 49, number 1, →Bibcode, →DOI, pages 143–155: “The problem...

Forms of food-fall

pluralfood-falls

Questions about food-fall

What is food-fall the alternative form of?
Food-fall is the alternative form of food fall.

Words near food-fall in the dictionary

  1. food-borne diseases
  2. food-borne illness
  3. food-borne illnesses
  4. food-derived illness
  5. food-derived illnesses
  6. food-fall
  7. food-falls
  8. food-grade
  9. food-insecure
  10. food-literate
  11. food-secure

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