Aquaponics

//(ˌ)ækwəˈpɒnɪks// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture with hydroponics, with effluent from the water in which fish are reared being used as nutrition for plants. uncountable

    "The tomato may in fact have absorbed a flavor from the soil in which it was grown, one granted neither by the sand of Florida's winter tomatoes exported North, nor by hothouse aquaponics."

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hydroponics

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"Aquaponics is a new method of cultivation, destined to feed the population in a sustainable fashion, associated with fish farming and hydroponics, that is to say cultivating plants above ground."

Etymology

Blend of aquaculture + hydroponics.

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