monoculturaladj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈkʌltʃ(ə)rəl/, /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈkʌltʃ(ə)rl̩/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˈkəltʃ(ə)rəl/ 1. Of, relating to, or used for monoculture (monoculture n. 1a).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [adjective] > systems of cultivation
Virgilian1724
open field1728
three-field1869
intercultural1878
no-tillage1911
monocultural1915
polycultural1915
monoculture1933
slash-and-burn1942
slashed and burnt1949
1915 C. R. Enock Tropics xl. 442 Events in some tropical lands have laid bare the unwisdom of monocultural methods.
1928 E. R. Johnson et al. Princ. Transportation xxi. 243 The South from earliest colonial days has been agricultural and primarily monocultural.
1965 New Scientist 23 July 199/1 Monocultural crop planting on totally cleared areas.
1990 BBC Wildlife July 465/1 Bananas, coffee, cotton and sugar, along with the chemical sprays needed in monocultural farming, have taken over from the production of staple foods.
2. Sociology. Of or relating to a monoculture (monoculture n. 2) or monoculturalism.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adjective] > relating to a common culture
monocultural1964
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 583/1 The ‘Deep South’ region of U.S.A. exhibits specialized cultural, political, and economic (monocultural) features.
1968 W. E. Lambert et al. in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 479 It is of special interest to note a basically similar pattern appearing in all three of the American settings, two bicultural and one monocultural.
1974 A. B. Hermenet & A. A. Valencia in Position Papers Bilingual Bicultural Educ. Manpower Devel. 47 The student will gradually be transformed into a monocultural type, based on a set of cultural references principally favored by the school system.
1985 Community Librarian Aug. 30 A quick scan of the articles abstracted gives an apparent mono-cultural view of museums with the exception of a number on Maori culture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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