food-fall
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of food fall.
Example Sentences
- "Soltwedel, Thomas; von Juterzenka, Karen; Premke, Katrin; Klages, Michael (18 November 2003), “What a lucky shot! Photographic evidence for a medium-sized natural food-fall at the deep seafloor”, in Oceanologica Acta, volume 26, numbers 5–6 (overall work in English and French), →DOI, →ISSN, pages 623–628: “Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare.”"
- "Jones, Emma G. (18 September 1999), "Burial at Sea"; Consumption and Dispersal of Large Fish and Cetacean Food-Falls by Deep-Sea Scavengers in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Mediterranean Sea (PhD thesis), University of Aberdeen: “Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare.”"