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However, the food web is complicated, and just because the warmer weather benefits the moths on paper doesn’t mean the moths will end up on top.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
Reefs are a major part of the ocean food web, with nooks and crannies filled with worms, shrimps and other creatures.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
Researchers are still trying to understand how the toxins move through the food web as well.
—Bymegan Gannon, science.org, 16 July 2024
The biomass of tiny fish and crustaceans that live within the tendrils generate a food web of epic proportion.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1932, in the meaning defined above
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“Food web.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/food%20web. Accessed 22 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
food web
noun
: the whole group of interacting food chains in an ecological community
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