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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A complex of interrelated food chains.
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- noun biology a
diagram showing theorganisms thateat other organisms in a particularecosystem ,predators being higher in the web than theirprey
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- noun (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains
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