鲸落 (jīngluò) - whale fall (deep-sea ecosystem of a sunken carcass) in Chinese

Chinese Vocabulary

鲸落

whale fall (deep-sea ecosystem of a sunken carcass)

jīngluò

Usage & Explanation

Specialist term. 鲸 (whale) + 落 (fall). Glossed inline as the whole ecosystem that lives off a sunken whale for decades.

Hear It in Context

This word appears in 2 episodes:

When the Whale Becomes a Bomb: Why a 25-Ton Carcass Closed Four Sydney Beachesnormal One Dead Whale Shut Down Four Beaches in Sydneymedium

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