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food falls

food falls is the plural 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...

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What is food falls the plural of?
Food falls is the plural of food fall.

Words near food falls in the dictionary

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

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