ALL meanings of food chain
food chain
F f - noun food chain hierarchy of organisms 2
- noun food chain Ecology. a series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc. 1
- noun food chain the chain from a food source to the ultimate consumer. 1
- noun food chain a hierarchy ranked by status, importance, influence, etc.: people who are high up on the political and media food chain. 1
- countable noun food chain The food chain is a series of living things which are linked to each other because each thing feeds on the one next to it in the series. 0
- noun food chain a sequence of organisms in an ecosystem in which each species is the food of the next member of the chain 0
- noun food chain the hierarchy in an organization or society 0
- noun food chain a sequence (as grass, rabbit, fox) of organisms in a community in which each member feeds on the one below it 0