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food chain

noun

Etymology

From food + chain.

  1. derived from *kat-✻
  2. derived from catēna
  3. derived from chaine
  4. inherited from cheyne
  5. compounded as food chain — “food + chain”

Definitions

  1. The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.

  2. A hierarchy.

    • With my promotion this month I will continue my steady journey to the top of the food chain.
    • He, too, was a meat puppet. Unable to make any decision without imagined repercussions from above, he chose to make none and instead passed his decision onto the next guy up the food chain.
    • At the top of the food chain is PJ's, whose pizza wins high accolades, and whose menu of fat sandwiches (a local delicacy that stuffs as many deep-fried items into a roll as possible) is extensive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for food chain. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA