food chain Definition
food chain
noun
Ecol. a sequence (as grass, rabbit, fox) of organisms in a community in which each member feeds on the one below it
food chain Usage Examples
Converse of object
- enter: In particular, no GM material from the experiment is allowed to enter the human food chain.
- cover: An agency should have a remit which covers the whole food chain, from plow to plate.
- create: In developing countries, using land to create an artificial food chain has resulted in misery for hundreds of millions of people.
- include: Areas covered include the food chain, agriculture and environment.
- have: Each park or even each tree has many different food chains.
- do: But does this cheap Japanese food chain really deserve its title?
Preposition: in
way: They infiltrate their way into the food chain in a way which concentrates them the higher up the chain they travel.
Adjective modifier
- human: In particular, no GM material from the experiment is allowed to enter the human food chain.
- fast: Restaurants From fast food chains to more refined eateries you'll find them here.
- entire: Lower risk of liability The entire food chain suffers from consumers ' exposure to hazards.
- whole: An agency should have a remit which covers the whole food chain, from plow to plate.
- sustainable: The F4F research focus is on the interaction of agriculture and consumption: eating habits, food poverty and sustainable food chains.
- local: It uses the web to help re-build local food supply chains.
Modifies a noun
restaurant: An American fast food chain restaurant was trashed and burned in Karachi.
Noun used with modifier
- supply: The food supply chain should decrease its reliance on non-renewable energy.
- cattle: The possibility that ruminant protein was still entering the cattle food chain was therefore considered.
- woodland: Walk looking for evidence, adaptation, collecting and identification, woodland food chains and decomposers.
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