aquaponics
Syllables: aqua·pon·ics/(ˌ)ækwəˈpɒnɪks/US/ˌɑkwəˈpɑnɪks/
aquaponics noun: 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.
Noun
aquaponics (uncountable)
- 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.
- 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.1990, Eugene B[loor] Brody, Psychoanalytic Knowledge, Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, →ISBN, page 111
- The warm water in which [Donnie] Tenney's tilapia swim and grow is pumped from the fish tanks to beds nurturing basil, rosemary, and cucumber, then drained, filtered, and recirculated to the tilapia. The hybrid aquaculture-hydroponics system, dubbed aquaponics, uses pumps, aerators, greenhouse...2000 May–August, Carl Hoffmann, “Mining Fresh Water for Aquaculture”, in Appalachia, volume 33, number 2, Washington, D.C.: Appalachian Regional Commission, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, columns 1–2
aquaponics meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Sinhala and Arabic
aquaponics in Tamil
- system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
- அக்வாபோனிக்ஸ் akvāpōṉiks
aquaponics in Malayalam
- system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
- അക്വാപോണിക്സ് akvāpōṇiksŭ
aquaponics in Sinhala
- system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
- දිය වගාව diya wagāwa
aquaponics in Arabic
- system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
- أكوابونيكس
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- aquaponics in Malay
- akuaponik, piskiponik
- aquaponics in Indonesian
- akuaponik
- aquaponics in Persian
- آکواپونیک
- aquaponics in Vietnamese
- aquaponics
Examples of aquaponics in a sentence
- The hybrid aquaculture-hydroponics system, dubbed aquaponics, uses pumps, aerators, greenhouse lights, and fans all powered by natural gas from an abandoned gas well.2000 May–August, Carl Hoffmann, “Mining Fresh Water for Aquaculture”, in Appalachia, volume 33, number 2, Washington, D.C.: Appalachian...
- Pumps send the dirty fish water up into beds of watercress, which filter pollutants and trickle the cleaner water back down to the fish – a symbiotic system called aquaponics.2009 July 5, Elizabeth Royte, “Street farmer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2017:
Origin of aquaponics
Blend of aquaculture + hydroponics. By surface analysis, aqua- + -ponics.
Words formed from aquaponics
Words that rhyme with aquaponics
Questions about aquaponics
- What does aquaponics mean?
- Aquaponics means 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.
- What is aquaponics in Tamil?
- Aquaponics in Tamil is அக்வாபோனிக்ஸ் (akvāpōṉiks). See Aquaponics meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use aquaponics in a sentence?
- The hybrid aquaculture-hydroponics system, dubbed aquaponics, uses pumps, aerators, greenhouse lights, and fans all powered by natural gas from an abandoned gas well.
- What part of speech is aquaponics?
- Aquaponics is a noun.
- How do you pronounce aquaponics?
- Aquaponics is pronounced /(ˌ)ækwəˈpɒnɪks/ (UK).
Words near aquaponics in the dictionary
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