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hydroponics
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hydroponics has 1 sense
- hydroponics(n = noun.act) aquiculture, tank farming - a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients; Array is a kind of agriculture, farming, husbandry
has particulars: drip culture
Derived form adjective hydroponic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hydroponics, n. the process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, without soil and with added nutrients.
Derivative
hydroponic adj. hydroponically adv.
Etymology
HYDRO- + Gk ponos labour
THESAURUS
hydroponics
agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, algology, aquiculture, botany, bryology, contour farming, cultivation, culture, dendrology, dirt farming, dry farming, dryland farming, farm economy, farming, fruit farming, fungology, geoponics, grain farming, husbandry, intensive farming, mixed farming, mycology, paleobotany, phycology, physiological botany, phytobiology, phytochemistry, phytoecology, phytogeography, phytography, phytology, phytomorphology, phytonomy, phytopaleontology, phytopathology, phytotaxonomy, phytoteratology, phytotomy, phytotopography, plant anatomy, plant pathology, plant physiology, pomology, rural economy, sharecropping, strip farming, structural botany, subsistence farming, systematic botany, tank farming, thremmatology, tillage, tilth, truck farming
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