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foodweb

foodweb is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of foodweb

pluralfoodwebs

Origin of foodweb

From food + web.

Questions about foodweb

What is foodweb the alternative spelling of?
Foodweb is the alternative spelling of food web.

Words near foodweb in the dictionary

  1. foodtrucks
  2. foodware
  3. foodwares
  4. foodway
  5. foodways
  6. foodweb
  7. foodwebs
  8. foodwise
  9. foodwriter
  10. foodwriters
  11. foodwriting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foodweb (page history and authors); food web (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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