| 单词 | food chain |
| 释义 | food chain (once / 17801 pages) n If your pet mouse eats your pet spider and then your pet snake eats your pet mouse, you've helped make a food chain. Congratulations! A food chain is an arrangement of the organisms of an ecological community according to the order in which they eat each other. The entire ecological community, from large animals down to plants, insects and even algae, are fed into each other in size order. We also use food chain metaphorically for relationships of human power. If you were just promoted from office boy to senior consultant at your glam magazine, then you just moved up the food chain. WORD FAMILYfood chain: food chains USAGE EXAMPLESAt the end of the food chain, some soldiers partake in selling food directly to citizens, according to business owners. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Not that it is a necessarily a bad thing to start a little further down the food chain. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) "These aerial flows are an unappreciated aspect of terrestrial ecosystems, equivalent to the oceanic movements of plankton which power the oceanic food chains." Reuters(Dec 22, 2016) n (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member Hyper organic phenomenon (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals |
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