Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country.
- n. A single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
Wiktionary
- n. the cultivation of a single crop
- n. a culture that lacks diversity
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)
Etymologies
- mono- + culture (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So, if the "monoculture" is responsible for the current recession, doesn't that also imply that that same monoculture is responsible for the vast and incredible wealth, and subsequent increases in freedom, health, and human rights, produced over the past, say, 100 years?”
“Being a standalone literary monoculture is too dangerous, too fragile.”
“The monoculture is ignoring the gnats buzzing around the rotten fruit.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Dangers of a Monoculture — Reactions to the CRU Emails
“I dunno, the * title* of the post says that monoculture is what's bad for business, and yet the only defensive responses I've gotten have asked "Why are you blaming white men?”
“Our president once used the word monoculture in a sentence.”
Paula Crossfield: The Obama Administration and Food, Year One
“Too many developing countries, Salmon contended, encourage farmers to embrace "monoculture" -- growing just one crop at a time.”
The Huffington Post: Matthew Jacob: Refocusing the Locavore Message
“More and more I’m sure that in the 21st century, the century we’re living in now, monoculture is an artifact, and the individual, the micro-journalist, the micro-market, micro-media, anything but mainstream, that defines who we are.”
“That monoculture is gone or is quickly fracturing – I don’t know if the goastses and the oolongs are replacing them; like the Numa Dance or star wars kid that’s the only thing I can see that is close to ‘did you watch that show last night?’”
“We've seen the best kind of solutions to climate change aren't about adding a single gene or stacking a bunch of genes into a crop and proceeding with the idea that a monoculture is a good thing.”
Paula Crossfield: Reclaiming Value: An Interview with Raj Patel
“Unlike silviculture groups and pulp-and-paper industries that plant only one kind of species in a large area, a practice known as monoculture, Maathai was specific about the need for correct trees being planted in the correct places.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘monoculture’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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Behold, The Potato
All things potato. History, foodways and potato recipe names, cultivar or variety names, farming, production, diseases and pests, folklore.
spud, tater, starchy, tuberous, <i>Solanum tubero..., <i>Phytophthora i..., potato blight, late blight, blight, Ireland, Irish potato, lumper and 331 more...
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Cultivating Cultures
agriculture, apiculture, sericulture, horticulture, aquaculture, subculture, permaculture, monoculture, viticulture, floriculture, cyberculture, counterculture and 21 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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words I love
uncouth, milquetoast, clusterfuck, salacious, usurp, harpoon, unsavoury, bulwark, legerdemain, qualm, quagmire, trumps and 209 more...
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= inexplicable queasiness
when i hear these words ...
i feel that.. "ew ew ewww" feeling.
hm.
that's so weird.nub, moist, monoculture, circumfluent, curd, curdy, chancre, votary, tolerant
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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Way out in the woods
Foresters and loggers have a language all their own.
cruise, landing, chain, peavey, skidder, prescribed burn, shelterwood, clearcut, plantation, silviculture, thinning, weed species and 12 more...
Tweets
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pomegranate In forestry, a tract of land that contains only one species of tree. Dec 4, 2007