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food fall

food fall noun: an event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.

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...
    • Klages, Michael; Vopel, Kay; Bluhm, Hartmut; brey, Thomas; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf E. (April 2001), “Deep-sea food falls: first observation of a natural event in the Arctic Ocean”, in Polar Biology, volume 24, →DOI, pages 292–295: “We report and discuss the first observation of the...

Forms of food fall

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Questions about food fall

What does food fall mean?
Food fall means an event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.
What part of speech is food fall?
Food fall is a noun.
What is the plural of food fall?
The plural of food fall is food falls.

Words near food fall in the dictionary

  1. food desert
  2. food deserts
  3. food digger
  4. food drive
  5. food drives
  6. food fall
  7. food falls
  8. food fight
  9. food fights
  10. food fish
  11. food fishes

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