English Dictionary

food fall

noun

(marine biology) An event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.

The delicious food fell from the plate.

意味（1）

(marine biology) An event in which organic matter in the ocean sinks to the seafloor.

Klages, Michael; Muyakshin, Sergey; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf (2002-01-04), “Mechanoreception, a possible mechanism for food fall detection in deep-sea scavengers”, in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, volume 49, issue 1, Bibcode: 2002DSRI...49..143K, DOI:10.1016/S0967-0637(01)00047-4, pages 143–155: “The problem for any scavenger inhabiting the seafloor is the unpredictability both in space and time of food fall events.”