monoculture
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɒnəˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɒnoʊˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
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
See also
- oligoculture
Translations
the cultivation of a single crop
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a culture that lacks diversity
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): / mo.no.kyl.tyʁ /
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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
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