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The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
Tristram Stuart

Meaning of "monoculture" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MONOCULTURE

monoculture  [ˈmɒnəʊˌkʌltʃə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONOCULTURE

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Monoculture is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MONOCULTURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

monoculture

Monoculture

Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years. It is widely used in modern industrial agriculture and its implementation has allowed for large harvests from minimal labour. Monocultures can lead to the quicker spread of pests and diseases, where a uniform crop is susceptible to a pathogen. 'Crop monoculture' is the practice of growing the same crop year after year. The term is frequently borrowed for other uses, such as raising one species of livestock in a farm, or even in fields other than agriculture to describe any group dominated by a single variety, e.g. in the field of musicology to describe the dominance of the American and British music-industries in Western pop music, or in the field of computer science to describe a group of computers all running identical software. A monocultivated potato field...

Definition of monoculture in the English dictionary

The definition of monoculture in the dictionary is the continuous growing of one type of crop.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONOCULTURE


agriculture
ˈæɡrɪˌkʌltʃə
apiculture
ˈeɪpɪˌkʌltʃə
aquaculture
ˈækwəˌkʌltʃə
arboriculture
ˈɑːbərɪˌkʌltʃə
aviculture
ˈeɪvɪˌkʌltʃə
counterculture
ˈkaʊntəˌkʌltʃə
floriculture
ˈflɔːrɪˌkʌltʃə
horticulture
ˈhɔːtɪˌkʌltʃə
interculture
ˈɪntəˌkʌltʃə
mariculture
ˈmærɪˌkʌltʃə
permaculture
ˈpɜːməˌkʌltʃə
pisciculture
ˈpɪsɪˌkʌltʃə
polyculture
ˈpɒlɪˌkʌltʃə
sericulture
ˈsɛrɪˌkʌltʃə
silviculture
ˈsɪlvɪˌkʌltʃə
subculture
ˈsʌbˌkʌltʃə
sylviculture
ˈsɪlvɪˌkʌltʃə
vermiculture
ˈvɜːmɪˌkʌltʃə
viniculture
ˈvɪnɪˌkʌltʃə
viticulture
ˈvɪtɪˌkʌltʃə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONOCULTURE

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monocrat
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monocrystal
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monocycle
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monocyte
monocytic
monocytoid

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONOCULTURE

adventure
bearded vulture
black vulture
blame culture
cell culture
club culture
coculture
corporate culture
culture
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gun culture
long-hours culture
organizational culture
ostreiculture
popular culture
pure culture
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turkey vulture
vulture
youth culture

Synonyms and antonyms of monoculture in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monoculture» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONOCULTURE

Find out the translation of monoculture to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of monoculture from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «monoculture» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

单一
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monocultivo
570 millions of speakers

English

monoculture
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोनोकल्चर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأحادية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

монокультуры
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

monocultura
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফসলী চাষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monoculture
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monokultur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Monokultur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

モノカルチャー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단종
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Monoculture
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

độc canh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒற்றைமுறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोनोकल्चर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

monokültür
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

monocoltura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

monokultura
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

монокультури
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

monocultură
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μονοκαλλιέργεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

monokultuur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monokultur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

monokultur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monoculture

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOCULTURE»

The term «monoculture» is regularly used and occupies the 100.149 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOCULTURE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about monoculture

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2 QUOTES WITH «MONOCULTURE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word monoculture.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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Tristram Stuart
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOCULTURE»

Discover the use of monoculture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monoculture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything
In Monoculture, F.S. Michaels draws on extensive research and makes surprising connections among disciplines to take a big-picture look at how one story is changing everything.
F. S. Michaels, 2011
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "model Minority"
Examines the most pervasive ideology of today, globalism, and measures its impact on ordinary people.
Eric Mark Kramer, 2003
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Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything
Michaels draws on extensive research and makes surprising connections among disciplines to take a big-picture look at how the narrowing of diversity and creation of a monoculture--or one story--is changing everything.
F. S. Michaels, 2011
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The Nature of Disease in Plants
We know from the history of agriculture that plant diseases became more severe with the development of monoculture; this probably has occurred with most of our crops, but at such early dates that we have no records. It is the down side of an ...
Robert P. Scheffer, 1997
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The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination: Ethnicity ...
society or monoculture society. A monoculture society privileges a singular presentation: one language, one religious practice, and one ethnic group. As the Australian minister for immigration in the late 1960s claimed, a monoculture society is ...
Jean Lau Chin, 2004
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Sustainable Agriculture
Monoculture Monoculture is the most prevalent form of production in Western agriculture today. It refers to a system of growing large areas of a single crop in which almost no diversity is present at all. Crops grown in this way are often ...
John Mason, 2003
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InfoWorld
Take the concept of monoculture. In agriculture, monoculture refers to the cultivation of a single crop; for example, you bet the farm on cotton alone. In IT, the monoculture discussion often centers on whether it's wise to bet the farm on an ...
8
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends: ...
In contrast, the low diversity of most commercial monoculture systems often results in large crop losses from a pest complex that is less diverse but more abundant than that in more diverse systems. Indeed, a low-diversity global strategy of ...
Rashid M. Hassan, Robert Scholes, Neville Ash, 2005
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Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
the dangers of monocUltUre The family farm had seen better days by the time Earl Butz was named Secretary of Agriculture by President Nixon in 1971. Butz was a farmer by trade, a former Dean of Agriculture at Purdue University, and the  ...
Kathy Wilson Peacock, 2010
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Integrated Livestock-fish Farming Systems
Industrial monoculture (settled agriculture phase III) has evolved to supply ever larger, more concentrated markets with homogenous products. Increasingly dependent on the fruits of science and engineering, traditional mixed farming has  ...
David Little, Peter Edwards, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOCULTURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term monoculture is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why bananas as we know them might go extinct (and what to do …
The Cavendish is a monoculture, which means it's the only variety that most commercial growers plant every year. Which is also why it is now ... «myfox8.com, Jul 15»
2
GMO Labeling: Five Things to Know About the “DARK Act” (Deny …
... herbicide recently deemed a “probable carcinogen” by the World Health Organization; they have led to a rise in monoculture crop production; ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
3
Impact of 'Ecocide' in Guatemala's Pasion River Runs Deep
... contaminated by an industrial pesticide used for the production of African oil palm, a chemically intensive crop grown as a monoculture. «teleSUR English, Jul 15»
4
Sourcing Sustainable Bamboo Flooring
We read of bamboo monoculture forests being planted after a native forest was clear cut, we knew the transportation from overseas would add ... «Mother Earth News, Jul 15»
5
Worried About GMOs? Try Heirloom Corn
Field corn is the poster child for monoculture, which means little to no crop rotation. Consequently, cornfields are vulnerable to corn borers and ... «TakePart, Jul 15»
6
Agriculture, manufacturing clock negative growth: Assocham study
"The agriculture sector of Punjab is now facing serious challenges posed by deteriorating natural resource base due to monoculture of ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
7
A rose by any other name ... may become diseased
“What we've learned is we're shifting away from a large monoculture planting,” he said. “We're not going to put ourselves at such a risk for loss ... «Salina Journal, Jul 15»
8
Climate summit ignores real problems
Replacing virgin forests with monoculture plantations to provide palm oil for biodiesel also greatly reduces biodiversity over vast regions. «Lethbridge Herald, Jul 15»
9
New investments attracted by Punjab dropped 63% YoY: Study
... cent in 2014-15 owing to factors like monoculture of wheat-paddy crop rotation, stagnation in yield of principal crops, declining farm incomes, ... «Orissadiary.com, Jul 15»
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Student Shows 2015: CASS School of Architecture
I was expecting a monoculture as suffocating, say, as the Bartlett's cyberpunkery, whose acolytes would peg Cass students as shoegazing, ... «Architects' Journal, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Monoculture [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/monoculture>. Apr 2024 ».
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