monoculture

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English

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Etymology

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From mono- +‎ culture.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɒnəˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɒnoʊˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

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monoculture (countable and uncountable, plural monocultures)

  1. (agriculture) The cultivation of a single crop at a time.
    Antonym: polyculture
    • 2023 September 30, Martha Gill, “When Taylor Swift reaps country-sized riches, other artists are squeezed out”, in The Observer[1], →ISSN:
      Monocultures are bad for the environment; as we forced golden, waving wheat to take over the planet, other species faltered and failed, rather than rising on their merits.
    • 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian[2]:
      As we Irish discovered in the great famine of 1845-49, monocultures are generally not a good idea and we abandon biodiversity at our peril. Farrell and Berjon make the same point about our online world: the internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture.
  2. (anthropology) A culture or society that lacks diversity; a society marked by monoculturalism.
    • 2023 September 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Weirdos Living Inside Our Phones”, in The Atlantic[3]:
      It also isn’t going to be broadcast on TV networks that yearn to re-create the previous century’s monoculture. Our attention spans and tastes keep fracturing, and the ratings for late-night comedy keep declining.

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Verb

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monoculture (third-person singular simple present monocultures, present participle monoculturing, simple past and past participle monocultured)

  1. To cultivate such a crop

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

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From mono- +‎ culture.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɔ.no.kyl.tyʁ/
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Noun

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monoculture f (plural monocultures)

  1. monoculture
    Coordinate term: polyculture
    • 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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Noun

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monoculture f

  1. plural of monocultura