food chain

1. 1.

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

   Broaderorganic phenomenon

   Part offood web

   ecology

Questions about food chain

What does food chain mean?

food chain means "(ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member".

Is food chain a common word?

food chain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.