noun
(ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
• Syn: ↑food cycle
• Topics: ↑ecology, ↑bionomics, ↑environmental science
• Hypernyms: ↑organic phenomenon
• Part Meronyms: ↑food chain
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noun : the totality of interacting food chains in an ecological community
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Ecol.
a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. Also called food cycle.
[1960-65]
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food web noun (ecology)
An interconnected pattern of food chains
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Main Entry: ↑food
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food web,
= food cycle. (Cf. ↑food cycle)
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n. Ecology a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
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a system of ↑food chains that are related to and depend on each other
Useful english dictionary. 2012.