Monoculture

Word MONOCULTURE
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Pronunciations /ˈmɒnoʊˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Monoculture"

What do we mean by monoculture?

The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country. noun

A single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension. noun

The cultivation of a single crop noun

A culture that lacks diversity noun

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

The cultivation of a single crop at a time.

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

Uncool, unhip version of cosmopolitanism. Urban Dictionary

Monocultural society excludes external cultural influences and practices only the traditions of one culture, usually a very undiluted society. Urban Dictionary

Bi-monocultural People come from Two different Cultural backgrounds but they only look like one Culture more than the other. Urban Dictionary

Not really even unique to Missoula, the missoula monoculture can actually be found in other, similar wannabe hippy but sort of rich towns across the west. The chicks are all sort of hot, the dudes all have beards. They each wear hoodless down patagonia jackets, carharts, and bring their kids to the bar/brewery. Their lab is in their subaru parked outside, which they will later drive to their modest 2br house which looks like every other house for miles in a haphazard subdivision. They are into skiing, riding their bikes, climbing, etc. They look like they are models for an LL bean catalog. Urban Dictionary

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The word "monoculture" in example sentences

So, if the "monoculture" is responsible for the current recession, doesn't that also imply that that same monoculture is responsible for the vast and incredible wealth, and subsequent increases in freedom, health, and human rights, produced over the past, say, 100 years? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The monoculture is ignoring the gnats buzzing around the rotten fruit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I dunno, the * title* of the post says that monoculture is what's bad for business, and yet the only defensive responses I've gotten have asked "Why are you blaming white men?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

Being a standalone literary monoculture is too dangerous, too fragile. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our president once used the word monoculture in a sentence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Too many developing countries, Salmon contended, encourage farmers to embrace "monoculture" -- growing just one crop at a time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More and more I’m sure that in the 21st century, the century we’re living in now, monoculture is an artifact, and the individual, the micro-journalist, the micro-market, micro-media, anything but mainstream, that defines who we are. ❋ Unknown (2006)

That monoculture is gone or is quickly fracturing – I don’t know if the goastses and the oolongs are replacing them; like the Numa Dance or star wars kid that’s the only thing I can see that is close to ‘did you watch that show last night?’ ❋ Unknown (2005)

We've seen the best kind of solutions to climate change aren't about adding a single gene or stacking a bunch of genes into a crop and proceeding with the idea that a monoculture is a good thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unlike silviculture groups and pulp-and-paper industries that plant only one kind of species in a large area, a practice known as monoculture, Maathai was specific about the need for correct trees being planted in the correct places. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

Agriculture is now an industrial-scale enterprise, with huge estates dedicated to the cultivation of a single crop -- so-called monoculture farming. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Being -- relying on a monoculture is a recipe for disaster in a world market where -- what happened to the Brazilians is by 1906, they were growing way too much coffee for people to drink. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The practice of planting thousands of acres all of the same variety is known as monoculture and has left the crop extremely vulnerable to pests and diseases and forced cotton farmers onto what is known as the "chemical treadmill." click here for a report on "The True Cost of Cotton." ❋ Unknown (2010)

A monoculture is the growing of only one species of crop, grown densely over a large land area. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And GMOs further encourage monoculture, which is the single most retarded idea (well, almost) that modern farming has had. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead, the focus of his speech was the critics of synthetic agriculture: "Emotionally charged labels such as monoculture, factory farmer, industrial food, and big ag threaten to fray our edges," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You however see to have no problems - perhaps you could explain what is in this "monoculture" you are looking to create - it would also be interesting to hear what is within your moderate tolerance limits. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Some say the company exports a "monoculture," much the way McDonalds does. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Liberal [elitist hipster]: That is so horrible that [MacDonald's] is everywhere in the world. They are breaking down indigenous culture and traditional folkways. [Monoculture] everywhere. (Moments later) It is so wonderful that we are breaking down these backward ways of life in the South and any other traditional culture. We want to spread cosmopolitanism everywhere. I am a citizen of the world! ❋ Tex In Tex (2008)

I'm Monocultural not [Monoracial], it's the opposite of Race /Monoracial in general , we don't identify with race, it's a social [construct] [after all]. ❋ Spokentruth (2019)

I'm Bi-monocultural meaning [I come] from two [backgrounds] but I look like one [culture]. ❋ Spokentruth (2019)

[Check that] chick out - she's almost sexy. [Bro bra], she is a [card-carrying member] of the missoula monoculture. hope you're ready to live the active lifestyle Man, I went to snowbowl once, no thanks. ❋ Thecrusha (2010)

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