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UK
/mˈɒnəʊkˌʌltʃɐ/
]
NOUN
- the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)
How To Use monoculture In A Sentence
- I let them assume, as most people naturally assume, particularly people from a monoculture, that our society is pretty much like theirs. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
- The surroundings are of heather, not some extreme monoculture, but a pattern with grasses and bilberry.
- In conventional farming, a single variety of crop plant is grown by itself in large tracts - a method known as monoculture.
- Monoculture practices can incorporate multiple cropping systems by using rotations, borders, and cover crops.
- Our president once used the word monoculture in a sentence. Paula Crossfield: The Obama Administration and Food, Year One
- The monoculture is ignoring the gnats buzzing around the rotten fruit. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Dangers of a Monoculture — Reactions to the CRU Emails
- Soil can be seeded within monoculture grass, or trees can be planted widely apart so that they do not become roosts for mynas and starlings.
- Being a standalone literary monoculture is too dangerous, too fragile. What a writer’s gotta do «
- Modern ‘monoculture’ is central to the unverified claims about modern varieties being less disease resistant.
- Brazilian agriculture has been going through a rapid process of modernization in recent years, with the expansion of intensive monoculture.