monoculture

English

Etymology

mono- +‎ culture

Pronunciation

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

Noun

monoculture (countable and uncountable, plural monocultures)

1. (agriculture) The cultivation of a single crop at a time.

   Antonym: polyculture

2. A culture or society that lacks diversity; a society marked by monoculturalism.

Derived terms

• monocultural
• monoculturalism

See also

• oligoculture

Translations

the cultivation of a single crop

• Catalan: monoconreu f, monocultiu m
• Czech: monokultura f
• French: monoculture (fr) f
• German: Monokultur (de) f
• Greek: μονοκαλλιέργεια (el) f (monokalliérgeia)
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• Irish: monashaothrú m
• Italian: monocoltura f
• Polish: monokultura (pl) f
• Spanish: monocultivo (es) m

a culture that lacks diversity

• French: monoculture (fr) f
• German: Monokultur (de) f
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• Irish: monashaothrú m
• Italian: monocultura f

Further reading

• monoculture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

mono- +‎ culture

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.no.kyl.tyʁ/

Noun

monoculture f (plural monocultures)

1. monoculture
   • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, →ISBN , chap. VII, p. 67

     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. 1973, John & Doreen Weightman (trans.), Tristes Tropiques, 2011 ed., Penguin Books, →ISBN, chap. VII

Further reading

• “monoculture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

monoculture f

1. plural of monocultura