Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

food fall

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.94 in modern English

Syllables: food -fall
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.

Example Sentences

"Klages, Michael; Muyakshin, Sergey; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf (18 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 for any scavenger inhabiting the seafloor is the unpredictability both in space and time of food fall events.”"
"Klages, Michael; Vopel, Kay; Bluhm, Hartmut; brey, Thomas; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf E. (18 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 processing of a natural food fall of smaller size in the deep sea.”"

Inflected Forms

food falls (plural) food-fall (alternative) foodfall (alternative)

Questions

What does food fall mean?: An event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.

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