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Definitions for monoculture
ˈmɒn əˌkʌl tʃərmono·cul·ture

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. monoculturenoun

    the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)

Wiktionary

  1. monoculturenoun

    the cultivation of a single crop

  2. monoculturenoun

    a culture that lacks diversity

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  1. monoculture

    Monoculture is an agricultural practice in which a single crop or livestock species is cultivated or reared in a particular area or field at a time, typically over a large scale, to the exclusion of other species. This method often prioritizes maximizing yield and efficiency over biodiversity and sustainability. It can lead to increased vulnerability to pests, diseases, and changes in market demand.

Wikidata

  1. Monoculture

    Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years. It is widely used in modern industrial agriculture and its implementation has allowed for large harvests from minimal labour. Monocultures can lead to the quicker spread of diseases, where a uniform crop is susceptible to a pathogen. 'Crop monoculture' is the practice of growing the same crop year after year. The term is frequently borrowed for other uses, such as raising one species of livestock in a farm, or even in fields other than agriculture to describe any group dominated by a single variety, e.g. in the field of musicology to describe the dominance of the American and British music-industries in pop music, or in the field of computer science to describe a group of computers all running identical software.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of monoculture in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of monoculture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of monoculture in a Sentence

  1. Daniel Field:

    Human activity is causing deforestation on a massive scale, we know that the diversity of bird communities is impacted by the availability of forests -- when forests are cut down in favor of, for example, palm oil monoculture, bird diversity is slashed. It's probable that, if this kind of deforestation continues unabated, it will leave an indelible signature on the evolution of birdlife.

  2. Christopher Rosen:

    Movies used to be a monoculture, but even the biggest movies don’t really approach the kind of universality that something like a popular television series might.

  3. Dan Koeppel:

    India had about 600 varieties, but over the past two decades the Cavendish has pushed out and replaced many of those. And when you replace a varied multiculture with a monoculture, if a disease happens, you're in trouble: nature comes back and bites you, monoculture to me is just as much a disease as TP4.

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