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food web

–noun Ecology.
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.


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1960–65
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food web  
n.  A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. Also called food cycle.
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food web  
See under food chain.
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