Definition of "food web" [food web]

• A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. Also called food cycle. (noun)

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• "It enters the food web via photosynthesis, which is the process whereby green plants take in carbon dioxide molecules from the atmosphere and use energy from sunlight to combine the carbon atoms with water to make sugars."