different between monoculture vs phrag

English

Etymology

mono- +? culture

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?n??k?lt???(?)/, /?m?no??k?lt???(?)/

Noun

monoculture (countable and uncountable, plural monocultures)

1. (agriculture) The cultivation of a single crop at a time.

   Antonym: polyculture

2. A culture or society that lacks diversity; a society marked by monoculturalism.

Derived terms

• monocultural
• monoculturalism
• monoculturist

Related terms

• biculture
• oligoculture

Translations

Verb

monoculture (third-person singular simple present monocultures, present participle monoculturing, simple past and past participle monocultured)

1. To cultivate such a crop

Further reading

• monoculture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

mono- +? culture

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.no.kyl.ty?/

Noun

monoculture f (plural monocultures)

1. monoculture
   • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, ?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

Further reading

• “monoculture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

monoculture f

1. plural of monocultura

English

Etymology

Shortening of Phragmites, genus of Phragmites australis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?æ?/
  • Homophone: frag
  • Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

phrag (uncountable)

1. Phragmites australis, a monoculture reed grass.
   • 2008, Jim Collins, "Connecticut Tidelands", Yankee Magazine, p. 34

     "Phrag is a monoculture that squeezes out all other species."

     The two phrag programs have been so successful that funding for similar-scale projects is targeting other locations in the tidelands.

Synonyms

• (Phragmites australis): common reed

See also

• Phragmites australis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phragmites australis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Phragmites australis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• -graph, graph