| 单词 |
polyculture |
| 释义 |
polyculture|ˈpɒlɪkʌltjʊə(r)|
[irreg. f. poly- + culture n. Cf. monoculture.]
a. The simultaneous cultivation or exploitation of several crops or animals.
b. An area in which this is practised. Opp. monoculture. Hence polyˈcultural a.
1915C. R. Enock Tropics xl. 439 It is not to ‘monoculture’ but to ‘polyculture’—that is, to varied production as contrasted with single products—that any community must look for its economic and social security. The peculiar conditions of the tropics must always of necessity call for a considerable exercise of monoculture..but it must be balanced by equitable regard for the native producer and the exercise to the utmost possible extent of polycultural principles, whereby a supply of all products and all articles necessary for life are producible locally. 1967Geo. Abstr. D. 15 Much of the area has a polyculture of nuts, fruits and vines. 1973Country Life 21 June 1818/3 The polycultural tradition in Italy may be seen from the fact that Frescobaldi [sc. a wine producer] have considerable tree plantations and 70,000 olive trees. 1974Oryx XII. 358 A polyculture of wild ungulates can be likened to a sophisticated system of crop rotation at a secondary level. |
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