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TANK FARMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tank farming mean? 

TANK FARMING (noun)
  The noun TANK FARMING has 1 sense:

1. a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrientsplay

  Familiarity information: TANK FARMING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TANK FARMING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aquiculture; hydroponics; tank farming

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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