📚 noun • entry_id 32608
monoculture
/ˈmɒnəˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
monocultivo
The cultivation of a single crop at a time.
As we Irish discovered in the great famine of 1845-49, monocultures are generally not a good idea and we abandon biodiversity at our peril. Farrell and Berjon make the same point a…
Monocultures are bad for the environment; as we forced golden, waving wheat to take over the planet, other species faltered and failed, rather than rising on their merits.
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