Synonyms for food chain
food cha·in

Princeton's WordNet

1. food chainnoun

   (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member

Matched Categories

1. • Ecology
   • Organic Phenomenon

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1. Professor Long:

   We palaeontologists know that we can never find everything that ever once existed, but its unlikely something bigger in the shark world than megalodon ever existed or at least we would have clues about it — like a tooth or giant scale or something. Frankly nothing bigger than megalodon could have existed as there was likely not enough food to support it. It’s the same argument why lions are top of the food chain in Africa today.

2. Hunter S. Thompson:

   It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

3. Tom Vilsack:

   It is a cascading series of events here that is disrupting the entire food chain, you start ending school lunch programs, universities shut down, food service shuts down, tourism and hotels have low occupancy and at the end of the day you have a tremendous amount of the overall supply of food having to be redirected.

4. Gregers Heering:

   These ships play a very huge role in our consumer food chain.

5. Lori Rosenthal:

   When we prepare our own meals we know exactly what the foods we are eating contain, when dining out, we are leaving the ingredients to the chef or fast food chain.