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Definition of Food web
1. Noun. (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains.
Exact synonyms: Food Cycle
Category relationships: Bionomics, Ecology, Environmental Science
Generic synonyms: Organic Phenomenon
Terms within: Food Chain
Category relationships: Bionomics, Ecology, Environmental Science
Generic synonyms: Organic Phenomenon
Terms within: Food Chain
Definition of Food web
1. Noun. (biology) a diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Food Web
Literary usage of Food web
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"Sanger's (1983) compilation contains numerous food web diagrams which depict the
... A food web and a model of the trophic-level interactions influencing ..."
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