food chain

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	organic phenomenon,
definition	:	(biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals (noun.phenomenon)

part meronym	:	food cycle, food web,
definition	:	(ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains (noun.phenomenon)

domain category	:	bionomics, ecology, environmental science,
definition	:	the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment (noun.cognition)