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10 Language-to-English DictionariesFood-Web
/fuːd wɛb/Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.
"In a forest ecosystem, the food web illustrates how plants, herbivores, and predators interact and depend on each other for survival." - 2
A diagram that represents the feeding relationships between different species in an ecological community.
"The food web diagram showed the various pathways through which energy flows in the marine environment."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term 'food web' combines 'food', derived from Old English 'fōda', meaning nourishment, and 'web', from Old English 'webb', referring to a woven structure. The concept emerged in ecological studies in the mid-20th century to illustrate the interconnectedness of organisms within an ecosystem.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Food-Web" is said worldwide
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réseau alimentaire
Transliteration: réseau alimentaire
"Le réseau alimentaire montre comment les espèces interagissent dans un écosystème."
Nahrungsnetz
Transliteration: Nahrungsnetz
"Das Nahrungsnetz zeigt die Beziehungen zwischen den Organismen in einem Ökosystem."
rete alimentare
Transliteration: rete alimentare
"La rete alimentare illustra le interazioni tra le specie in un ecosistema."
red alimentaria
Transliteration: red alimentaria
"La red alimentaria muestra cómo los organismos se relacionan en un ecosistema."
rede alimentar
Transliteration: rede alimentar
"A rede alimentar ilustra as interações entre as espécies em um ecossistema."
खाद्य जाल
Transliteration: khādya jāl
"खाद्य जाल दिखाता है कि विभिन्न प्रजातियाँ एक पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र में कैसे जुड़ी हुई हैं।"
食物网
Transliteration: shíwù wǎng
"食物网展示了生态系统中不同物种之间的相互关系。"
먹이망
Transliteration: meogi mang
"먹이망은 생태계 내에서 다양한 종 간의 상호작용을 보여줍니다."
食物網
Transliteration: shokubutsumō
"食物網は生態系内のさまざまな種の相互作用を示しています。"
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