Term: food pyramid: (ecology) a hierarchy of food chains with the principal predator at the top; each level preys on the level below
Candidate hypernym: organic phenomenon: (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals → 1
Candidate hypernym: shrillness: having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound → 0
Candidate hypernym: diapensiaceae: north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales → 0
Candidate hypernym: semivowel: a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant → 0
Candidate hypernym: electronic countermeasures: electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum → 0
Candidate hypernym: entrenching tool: a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches → 0
Candidate hypernym: extinction: the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning → 0
Candidate hypernym: creeping st john's wort: creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover → 0
Candidate hypernym: case history: detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment → 0
Candidate hypernym: bletilla: small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia → 0
Candidate hypernym: red clay: clay whose redness results from iron oxide → 0