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food webs

food webs is the plural of food web.

Meaning of food web

Noun

food web (plural food webs)

  1. A diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey; the network of interrelations that the diagram models.
    • [T]he dynamic nature of rivers that flow westward from the peninsular range of San Diego county has been altered by man. […] Human modifications tend to alter the habitat values, water quality, flow regimes, and most importantly the food web by changing the trophic structure.1996 September, Adam W. Whelchel, “Coastal Natural Resources of Northern San Diego County”, in Tissa Munasinghe, Phil Rosenberg, editors, Geology and Natural Resources of Coastal San Diego County...
    Synonyms:
    food cycle

Questions about food webs

What is food webs the plural of?
Food webs is the plural of food web.

Words near food webs in the dictionary

  1. food vacuole
  2. food vacuoles
  3. food waste disposer
  4. food waste disposers
  5. food web
  6. food webs
  7. food wrap
  8. food wraps
  9. food writer
  10. food writers
  11. food writing

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