monoculture
English
Etymology
mono- + culture
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɒnəˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɒnoʊˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Noun
monoculture (countable and uncountable, plural monocultures)
- (agriculture) The cultivation of a single crop at a time.
- Antonym: polyculture
- (anthropology) A culture or society that lacks diversity; a society marked by monoculturalism.
Derived terms
- monocultural
- monoculturalism
- monoculturist
Related terms
- biculture
- oligoculture
Translations
cultivation of a single crop at a time
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culture or society that lacks diversity
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Verb
monoculture (third-person singular simple present monocultures, present participle monoculturing, simple past and past participle monocultured)
- To cultivate such a crop
Further reading
monoculture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
mono- + culture
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ.no.kyl.tyʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
monoculture f (plural monocultures)
- monoculture
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter VII, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 67; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
- L'humanité s'installe dans la monoculture ; elle s'apprête à produire la civilisation en masse, comme la betterave.
- — Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass.
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Further reading
- “monoculture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
monoculture f
- plural of monocultura