jīng​luò

whale fall

  • created sense approved 鲸落/鯨落 · jīng​luò · whale fall — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    鲸落 / 鯨落

    jīng​luò

    whale fall

    The carcass of a whale that has fallen into the deep ocean, creating a complex localized ecosystem that supplies sustenance to deep-sea organisms for decades

    鲸 (literal) → 鲸/鯨 · jīng · whale 落 (literal) → 落 · luò · to fall

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense