Food Chain Definition

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noun
A sequence (as grass, rabbit, fox) of organisms in a community in which each member feeds on the one below it.
Webster's New World
A competitive hierarchy.
Works high up in the corporate food chain.
American Heritage Medicine

The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.

Wiktionary

(idiomatic) A hierarchy.

With my promotion this month I will continue my steady journey to the top of the food chain.
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Other Word Forms of Food Chain

Noun

Singular:
food chain
Plural:
food-chains

Food Chain Sentence Examples

  • The food chain affects us all; only a few will be eaten by cannibals.

  • In caves, the basis of the food chain is organic matter from the surface.

  • These measures include the compulsory slaughter of cattle suspected of having BSE and the removal from the food chain of their milk and carcasses.

  • As the animals move inland to search for other food sources, a significant disruption of the ecosystem and food chain occurs.

  • Instead, they multiply and grow stronger as they work their way up the food chain as that creature is devoured by another or the planet and nothing but death is the outcome.

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