food cycle

1. 1.

   (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

   Synonymsfood web

   Broaderorganic phenomenon

   Partsfood chain

   ecology

Questions about food cycle

What does food cycle mean?

food cycle means "(ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains".

What is another word for food cycle?

Close synonyms include food web. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is food cycle a common word?

food cycle 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.