competitive exclusion : the situation in which at least one species is driven to local extinction (that is, excluded from a community) by interspecific competition.
(at least one species; is driven; to local extinction (that is, excluded from a community) by interspecific competition; L:the situation) (that; is excluded; from a community; by interspecific competition)
at least one species that
is driven is excluded
to local extinction (that is, excluded from a community) by interspecific competition L:the situation
from a community by interspecific competition