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aquiculture

aquiculture is the alternative form of aquaculture.

Meaning of aquaculture

Noun

aquaculture (countable and uncountable, plural aquacultures)

  1. The cultivation of aquatic produce such as aquatic plants, fish, and other aquatic animals.
    • The indigenous species used in aquaculture are: B. gonionotus, Jullien carp (Probarbus jullieni), Jullien's mud carp (Cirrhinus jullieni), soldier-river barb (Cyclocheilichthys enoplos), Leptobarbus hoevenii, Catlocarpio siamensis and Osteochilus hasseltii.2005, David J. Penman, Modadugu V. Gupta, Madan Mohan Dey, Carp genetic resources for aquaculture in Asia, WorldFish, →ISBN, page 65

Forms of aquiculture

pluralaquicultures

Origin of aquiculture

From aqui- + culture.

Questions about aquiculture

What is aquiculture the alternative form of?
Aquiculture is the alternative form of aquaculture.

Words near aquiculture in the dictionary

  1. aquicludal
  2. aquiclude
  3. aquicludes
  4. aquicolous
  5. aquicultural
  6. aquiculture
  7. aquicultures
  8. aquiculturist
  9. aquiculturists
  10. Aquidneck
  11. Aquidneck Island

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aquiculture (page history and authors); aquaculture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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