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HYDROPONICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients
Synonyms:
aquiculture; hydroponics; tank farming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hydroponics" is a kind of...):
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hydroponics"):
drip culture (a hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing)
Derivation:
hydroponic (of or relating to aquiculture)
