whalefall

noun

noun

Etymology From whale + fall, possibly modelled after snowfall. Compare also marine snow.

A whale carcass that has fallen to the ocean floor.

But the ocean floor is not exactly wall-to-wall whalefalls.2007 December 18, Henry Fountain, “Whales Are Tasty, but Bone-Eating Worms Might Not Discriminate”, in New York Times:

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