monoculture
Speech parts
1. monoculture - Noun
2. monoculture - Verb
Meaning
the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)
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Examples
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.
Although the noun Martian can describe any organism from Mars, these and later works typically imagine Martians as a humanoid monoculture.
As a result, the sugar monoculture and slave-worked plantation society spread across Jamaica throughout the eighteenth century, decreasing Jamaica's dependence on privateers for protection and funds.
However, in many cases monoculture plantations of conifers have replaced the original mixed natural forest, because these grow quicker.
Angie’s question was whether a cover crop cocktail containing a legume … will help with nitrogen (in the soil) and how does that differ from a monoculture of buckwheat with respect to plant health and harvestable yield.”