Food chain
Food chain noun - (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member.
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Synonyms for Food chain
Order and food chain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Order" instead a noun phrase "Food chain".
Order
Order noun - One of the segments of society into which people are grouped.
Usage example: the lower orders were once expected to be content living out their lives as servants to the upper classes
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He compares it to humans eating hamburgers, saying that a species higher on the food chain preying on one lower is just the natural order, and that humans have simply thought themselves above it.
Source: Manga / YuYu Hakusho - The Mak Attax cabal in Unknown Armies who have infiltrated "the world's largest fast-food chain" in order to spread magic randomly through the population.
Source: Milkman Conspiracy - The player starts with nothing and much make his way up the prison food chain in order to accomplish his mission.
Source: Penal Colony
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