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
Placing and food chain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Placing" instead a noun phrase "Food chain".
Placing
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Related pairs
- position and food chain
- position and placing
- order and food chain
- order and placing
- class and food chain
- class and placing
- grouping and food chain
- grouping and placing
- ordering and food chain
- ordering and placing
- hierarchy and food chain
- hierarchy and placing
- ranking and food chain
- ranking and placing
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- Shadow Stalker - a thrill-seeking psychopath with a poorly articulated philosophy that serves only the purpose of placing her at the top of the food chain and regularly brutalizes or kills criminals when she thinks she can get away with it - is the clearest example of this trope.
Source: Nominal Hero -
This is astonishingly untrue; most snakes and lizards (the most common types of reptiles) are preyed on by other creatures—birds, mammals, even some large spiders—and typically eat insects or rodents, placing them near the lower end of the food chain.
Source: Film / The Amazing Spider-Man
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