Meaning & use
food web
A complex network of interconnected food chains showing the feeding relationships among many organisms in an ecosystem.
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The biology textbook included a diagram of a forest food web linking dozens of species.
Overfishing one species can ripple through the entire ocean food web.
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A food web is more realistic than a single food chain because most organisms eat, and are eaten by, more than one species.
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