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foodchain

foodchain is the alternative spelling of food chain.

Meaning of food chain

Noun

food chain (plural food chains)

  1. The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.
    • Nanomaterials, substances broken down by technology into molecule-size particles, are starting to enter the food chain through well-known food products and their packaging, but there is little acknowledgment by the companies using them, according to a new report from a nonprofit group that works to...2013 February 6, Stephanie Strom, “Study Looks at Particles Used in Food”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019
  2. (idiomatic) A hierarchy.
    • With my promotion this month I will continue my steady journey to the top of the food chain.

Forms of foodchain

pluralfoodchains

Questions about foodchain

What is foodchain the alternative spelling of?
Foodchain is the alternative spelling of food chain.

Words near foodchain in the dictionary

  1. foodborne illness
  2. foodborne illnesses
  3. foodcation
  4. foodcations
  5. foodcentric
  6. foodchain
  7. foodchains
  8. foodcore
  9. foodcourt
  10. foodcourts
  11. fooder

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