monoculture
English
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Noun
monoculture (countable and uncountable, plural monocultures)
- (agriculture) The cultivation of a single crop at a time.
- Antonym: polyculture
- A culture or society that lacks diversity; a society marked by monoculturalism.
Derived terms
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Translations
the cultivation of a single crop
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a culture that lacks diversity
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Further reading
- monoculture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
monoculture f (plural monocultures)
- monoculture
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, →ISBN Invalid 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
- L'humanité s'installe dans la monoculture ; elle s'apprête à produire la civilisation en masse, comme la betterave.
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, chap. VII, p. 67
Further reading
- “monoculture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
monoculture f
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