"food chain" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-food chain.ogg [Australia] Forms: food chains [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} food chain (plural food chains)
  1. The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community. Categories (topical): Ecology Translations (feeding relationship between species): voedselketting (Afrikaans), qida zənciri (Azerbaijani), kate trofiko (Basque), ланцуг харчавання (lancuh xarčavannja) [masculine] (Belarusian), харчовы ланцуг (xarčóvy lancuh) [masculine] (Belarusian), хранителна верига (hranitelna veriga) [feminine] (Bulgarian), cadena tròfica [feminine] (Catalan), 食物鏈 (Chinese Mandarin), 食物链 (shíwùliàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 營養鏈 (Chinese Mandarin), 营养链 (yíngyǎngliàn) (Chinese Mandarin), potravní řetězec [masculine] (Czech), fødekæde [common-gender] (Danish), voedselketen [feminine] (Dutch), nutroĉeno (Esperanto), toitumisahel (Estonian), ravintoketju (Finnish), chaîne alimentaire [feminine] (French), cadea alimenticia [feminine] (Galician), cadea trófica [feminine] (Galician), Nahrungskette [feminine] (German), τροφική αλυσίδα (trofikí alysída) [feminine] (Greek), שרשרת מזון (sharsheret mazon) [feminine] (Hebrew), tápláléklánc (Hungarian), fæðukeðja [feminine] (Icelandic), nutriva kateno (Ido), rantai makanan (Indonesian), slabhra bia [masculine] (Irish), biashlabhra [masculine] (Irish), catena alimentare [feminine] (Italian), 食物連鎖 (shokumotsu rensa) (alt: しょくもつれんさ) (Japanese), 먹이 사슬 (meogi saseul) (Korean), barības ķēde [feminine] (Latvian), mitybos grandinė [feminine] (Lithuanian), синџир на исхрана (sindžir na ishrana) [masculine] (Macedonian), ланец на исхрана (lanec na ishrana) [masculine] (Macedonian), अन्नसाखळी (annasākhḷī) [feminine] (Marathi), næringskjede [common-gender] (Norwegian Bokmål), næringskjede [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), łańcuch pokarmowy [masculine] (Polish), cadeia alimentar [feminine] (Portuguese), cadeia trófica [feminine] (Portuguese), ਖੁਰਾਕ ਲੜੀ (khurāk laṛī) [feminine] (Punjabi), lanț trofic [masculine] (Romanian), chadaina da nutriment [feminine] (Romansh), пищева́я цепь (piščevája cepʹ) [feminine] (Russian), трофи́ческая цепь (trofíčeskaja cepʹ) [feminine] (Russian), sreath-bìdh (Scottish Gaelic), ланац исхране [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), lanac ishrane [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), potravinový reťazec [masculine] (Slovak), prehranjevalna veriga [feminine] (Slovene), cadena alimentaria [feminine] (Spanish), cadena trófica [feminine] (Spanish), mzunguko wa chakula (Swahili), näringskedja (Swedish), ห่วงโซ่อาหาร (hùuang-sôo-aa-hǎan) (Thai), besin zinciri (Turkish), харчовий ланцюжок (xarčovyj lancjužok) [masculine] (Ukrainian), харчовий ланцюг (xarčovyj lancjuh) [masculine] (Ukrainian), chuỗi thức ăn (Vietnamese), cadwyn fwyd [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-food_chain-en-noun-v~MXVRFM Disambiguation of Ecology: 92 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 97 3 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 97 3 Disambiguation of 'feeding relationship between species': 100 0
  2. (idiomatic) A hierarchy. Tags: idiomatic Translations (idiomatic: a hierarchy): 食物鏈 (Chinese Mandarin), 食物链 (shíwùliàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 等級制度 (Chinese Mandarin), 等级制度 (děngjí zhìdù) (Chinese Mandarin), 階層 (Chinese Mandarin), 阶层 (jiēcéng) (Chinese Mandarin), 层次 (céngcì) (Chinese Mandarin), fødekæde [common-gender] (Danish), hakkeorden [common-gender] (Danish), pikorde [feminine] (Dutch), ravintoketju (Finnish), tápláléklánc (Hungarian), 食物連鎖 (shokumotsu-rensa) (Japanese), cadeia alimentar [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-food_chain-en-noun-bEhjYyIH Disambiguation of 'idiomatic: a hierarchy': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: food web, trophic level

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          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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          "roman": "meogi saseul",
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          "word": "먹이 사슬"
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          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "annasākhḷī",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "अन्नसाखळी"
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          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "næringskjede"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "łańcuch pokarmowy"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cadeia alimentar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cadeia trófica"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pa",
          "lang": "Punjabi",
          "roman": "khurāk laṛī",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ਖੁਰਾਕ ਲੜੀ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "lanț trofic"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "rm",
          "lang": "Romansh",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "chadaina da nutriment"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "piščevája cepʹ",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "пищева́я цепь"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "trofíčeskaja cepʹ",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "трофи́ческая цепь"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "word": "sreath-bìdh"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "ланац исхране"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "lanac ishrane"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "potravinový reťazec"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "prehranjevalna veriga"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cadena alimentaria"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cadena trófica"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "word": "mzunguko wa chakula"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "word": "näringskedja"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "hùuang-sôo-aa-hǎan",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "word": "ห่วงโซ่อาหาร"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "word": "besin zinciri"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "xarčovyj lancjužok",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "харчовий ланцюжок"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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          "roman": "xarčovyj lancjuh",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "харчовий ланцюг"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "word": "chuỗi thức ăn"
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          "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "text": "With my promotion this month I will continue my steady journey to the top of the food chain."
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        "(idiomatic) A hierarchy."
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          "word": "食物鏈"
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          "word": "等級制度"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "děngjí zhìdù",
          "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "yíngyǎngliàn",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "营养链"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "nutroĉeno"
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "toitumisahel"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "ravintoketju"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "chaîne alimentaire"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cadea alimenticia"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cadea trófica"
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Nahrungskette"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "tápláléklánc"
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "nutriva kateno"
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      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "rantai makanan"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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      "word": "slabhra bia"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "catena alimentare"
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "食物連鎖"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "meogi saseul",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "먹이 사슬"
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      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "mitybos grandinė"
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "синџир на исхрана"
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "annasākhḷī",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "अन्नसाखळी"
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "næringskjede"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "łańcuch pokarmowy"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cadeia alimentar"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cadeia trófica"
    },
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      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "khurāk laṛī",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਖੁਰਾਕ ਲੜੀ"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "lanț trofic"
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      "code": "rm",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "chadaina da nutriment"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "piščevája cepʹ",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "пищева́я цепь"
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "трофи́ческая цепь"
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      "code": "gd",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "sreath-bìdh"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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      "word": "ланац исхране"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
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      "word": "lanac ishrane"
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "potravinový reťazec"
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "prehranjevalna veriga"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cadena alimentaria"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cadena trófica"
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      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "mzunguko wa chakula"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "näringskedja"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "hùuang-sôo-aa-hǎan",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "ห่วงโซ่อาหาร"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "besin zinciri"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xarčovyj lancjužok",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "харчовий ланцюжок"
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      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "харчовий ланцюг"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "word": "chuỗi thức ăn"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "feeding relationship between species",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cadwyn fwyd"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
      "word": "食物鏈"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shíwùliàn",
      "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
      "word": "食物链"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
      "word": "等級制度"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "děngjí zhìdù",
      "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
      "word": "等级制度"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
      "word": "階層"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiēcéng",
      "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
      "word": "阶层"
    },
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      "word": "层次"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "fødekæde"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "idiomatic: a hierarchy",
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    },
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      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "word": "食物連鎖"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "cadeia alimentar"
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