food pyramid

1. 1.

   (ecology) a hierarchy of food chains with the principal predator at the top; each level preys on the level below

   Broaderorganic phenomenon

   ecology

Questions about food pyramid

What does food pyramid mean?

food pyramid means "(ecology) a hierarchy of food chains with the principal predator at the top; each level preys on the level below".

Is food pyramid a common word?

food pyramid 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.