Phytomining

//ˈfaɪtəʊˌmaɪnɪŋ// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The planting and harvesting of vegetation that selectively concentrates specific metals from the environment into their tissues, for the purpose of commercial exploitation of the extracted metal. uncountable

    "Cultivation of hyperaccumulators on naturally enriched areas offers the greatest promise for use in phytomining. Phytomining is a more specific form of phytoremediation where the purpose of metal removal from soil is economic gain."

Synonyms

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agromining

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"Cultivation of hyperaccumulators on naturally enriched areas offers the greatest promise for use in phytomining. Phytomining is a more specific form of phytoremediation where the purpose of metal removal from soil is economic gain."

Etymology

From phyto- (prefix meaning ‘derived from or pertaining to plants’) + mining.

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