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Food chain   /fud tʃeɪn/   Listen
Food chain

noun
1.
(ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member.





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"Food chain" Quotes from Famous Books



... building a working model of a sun-powered ionic drive motor—the kind useful for deep-space propulsion, but far too weak in thrust to be any good, starting from the ground. The contest had been sponsored by—of all outfits—a big food chain, Trans-Columbia. But this wasn't so strange. Everybody was interested in, or affected by, ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... analogy with 'Big Mac Attack' from ads for the McDonald's fast-food chain; the variant 'big hack attack' is reported] Nearly synonymous with {hacking run}, though the latter more ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


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