monoculture

1. 1.

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

   Broaderculture

Other forms of monoculture

plural

monocultures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about monoculture

What does monoculture mean?

monoculture means "the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)".

How many syllables are in monoculture?

monoculture has 4 syllables: mo-no-cul-ture. The stress falls on "no".

Is monoculture a common word?

monoculture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.