food web

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [food web]
- /fud wɛb/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [food web]
- /fud wɛb/

Definitions of food web words

noun food web a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. 1
noun food web a combination of food chains that integrate to form a network 1
noun food web all the individual food chains in a community 0
noun food web (ecology) a diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey. 0

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Origin of food web

First appearance:

before 1960

One of the 3% newest English words

First recorded in 1960-65

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Parts of speech for Food web

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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food web popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 40% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 66% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

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Synonyms for food web

noun food web

food chain — hierarchy of organisms

Just one Synonym for food web