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foodfall

foodfall 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 foodfall

pluralfoodfalls

Questions about foodfall

What is foodfall the alternative form of?
Foodfall is the alternative form of food fall.

Words near foodfall in the dictionary

  1. fooder
  2. fooderie
  3. fooderies
  4. fooders
  5. foodery
  6. foodfall
  7. foodfalls
  8. foodfest
  9. foodfests
  10. foodfish
  11. foodfishes

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