polyculture
Americannoun
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the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
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a place where this is done.
Etymology
Origin of polyculture
Example Sentences
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With polyculture, you’re using using a three-dimensional space to create more food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
Yet proponents of perennial polyculture have a problem: More than half of all calories consumed by people come from grains, and no one has ever domesticated a grain that lived beyond a year.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
Remember: The Muslim world was probably at its most influential, culturally, scientifically and economically, in the Middle Ages, when it was a rich and diverse polyculture in Moorish Spain.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2020
And I’m totally behind that kind of polyculture.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2014
Perlstein says he has no idea which model will prevail but would like to see a polyculture, because there is no singular model of biological research.
From Forbes ● Mar. 15, 2014
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