DRIP CULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drip culture mean? 

• DRIP CULTURE (noun)
  The noun DRIP CULTURE has 1 sense:

1. a hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing

  Familiarity information: DRIP CULTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIP CULTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("drip culture" is a kind of...):

aquiculture; hydroponics; tank farming (a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients)