food web

The food web is defined as a concept that all the predator-prey interactions in a community are interrelated, and are sometimes drawn in a web-like image.

(noun)

An example of a food web is a diagram that shows a bird may eat a mouse, an insect or a grain while on the same diagram a mouse may also eat an insect or a grain.

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See food web in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Ecol. all the individual food chains in a community

See food web in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. Also called food cycle.

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