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English
Pronunciation
Noun
food chain (plural food chains)
- The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.
- (idiomatic) A hierarchy.
- With my promotion this month I will continue my steady journey to the top of the food chain.
Usage notes
Because the concept of the food chain implies a feeding hierarchy proceeding upwards to a top predator, modern ecologists usually prefer the term food web, since that term allows for a more complicated system of interactions.
Related terms
Translations
feeding relationship between species
- Afrikaans: voedselketting
- Azerbaijani: qida zənciri
- Basque: kate trofiko
- Belarusian: ланцуг харчавання m (lancuh xarčavannja), харчовы ланцуг m (xarčóvy lancuh)
- Bulgarian: хранителна верига f (hranitelna veriga)
- Catalan: cadena tròfica f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 食物鏈／食物链 (zh) (shíwùliàn), 營養鏈／营养链 (zh) (yíngyǎngliàn)
- Czech: potravní řetězec m
- Danish: fødekæde (da) c
- Dutch: voedselketen (nl) f
- Esperanto: nutroĉeno
- Estonian: toitumisahel
- Finnish: ravintoketju (fi)
- French: chaîne alimentaire (fr) f
- Galician: cadea alimenticia f, cadea trófica f
- German: Nahrungskette (de) f
- Greek: τροφική αλυσίδα f (trofikí alysída)
- Hebrew: שרשרת מזון (he) f (sharsheret mazon)
- Hungarian: tápláléklánc (hu)
- Icelandic: fæðukeðja (is) f
- Ido: nutriva kateno
- Indonesian: rantai makanan (id)
- Irish: slabhra bia m, biashlabhra m
- Italian: catena alimentare f
- Japanese: 食物連鎖 (ja) (しょくもつれんさ, shokumotsu rensa)
- Korean: 먹이 사슬 (meogi saseul)
- Latvian: barības ķēde f
- Lithuanian: mitybos grandinė f
- Macedonian: синџир на исхрана m (sindžir na ishrana), ланец на исхрана m (lanec na ishrana)
- Marathi: अन्नसाखळी (mr) f (annasākhḷī)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: næringskjede c
- Nynorsk: næringskjede f
- Polish: łańcuch pokarmowy (pl) m
- Portuguese: cadeia alimentar (pt) f, cadeia trófica f
- Punjabi: ਖੁਰਾਕ ਲੜੀ f (khurāk laṛī)
- Romanian: lanț trofic m
- Romansh: chadaina da nutriment f
- Russian: пищева́я цепь f (piščevája cepʹ), трофи́ческая цепь f (trofíčeskaja cepʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: sreath-bìdh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ланац исхране m
- Roman: lanac ishrane m
- Slovak: potravinový reťazec m
- Slovene: prehranjevalna veriga f
- Spanish: cadena alimentaria (es) f, cadena trófica f
- Swahili: mzunguko wa chakula
- Swedish: näringskedja (sv)
- Thai: ห่วงโซ่อาหาร (th) (hùuang-sôo-aa-hǎan)
- Turkish: besin zinciri (tr)
- Ukrainian: харчовий ланцюжок m (xarčovyj lancjužok), харчовий ланцюг m (xarčovyj lancjuh)
- Vietnamese: chuỗi thức ăn (vi)
- Welsh: cadwyn fwyd f
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