foodchain
nounUK /ˈfuːd tʃeɪn/
US /ˈfuːd tʃeɪn/
A food chain is the way animals get food by eating plants or other animals.
In a pond food chain, tiny fish eat bugs, and big fish eat the tiny fish.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The order in which living things eat one another in nature.
The teacher drew a food chain on the board with arrows.
3. A series of people or groups that pass something along to one another.
The rumor spread like a food chain through the school.
4. The path energy takes from the sun to plants to animals.
Sunlight starts the food chain in every forest.