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AQUACULTURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aquaculture mean?
• AQUACULTURE (noun)
The noun AQUACULTURE has 1 sense:
1. rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food
Familiarity information: AQUACULTURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("aquaculture" is a kind of...):
cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))
Derivation:
aquacultural (of or relating to aquiculture)
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