TANK FARMING

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 I. (noun) 

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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 ("tank farming" 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 "tank farming"):

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)

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