Monoculture

Quick meaning: Monoculture is a noun meaning (agriculture) The cultivation of a single crop at a time.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (anthropology) A culture or society that lacks diversity; a society marked by monoculturalism.
2. To cultivate such a crop

Example Sentences

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.

We must end the collusive relationship between government, Big Tech, Big Finance and corporate media that creates an ideological monoculture eager to punish people for their beliefs.

No one knew it at the time, but 2014 — more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie moment — marked the peak of a monoculture that no longer exists. The numbers show a long decay ever since.

It also isn’t going to be broadcast on TV networks that yearn to re-create the previous century’s monoculture. Our attention spans and tastes keep fracturing, and the ratings for late-night comedy keep declining.

Word Forms

• monocultures
• monoculturing
• monocultured

Antonyms for monoculture

Common opposites include polyculture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include monocropping, monocrop, oligoculture, polyculture, multicultivation, monocarpy.

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