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food-fall en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of food fall.
   alt of food fall
   • Jones, Emma G. (14 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.”
   • Soltwedel, Thomas; von Juterzenka, Karen; Premke, Katrin; Klages, Michael (14 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.”

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