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permaculture

Syllables: per·ma·cul·ture

permaculture noun: any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural resources and enriches local ecosystems.

Noun

permaculture (countable and uncountable, plural permacultures)

  1. Any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural resources and enriches local ecosystems.
    • in a world where there are competing ends for the use of natural resources, and particularly energy forms, the aim of permaculture is to create productive systems which are ecologically sound and ecologically viable, provide for their own […]2007, Derek Thomas, Architecture and the Urban Environment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 178
  2. The design, installation and maintenance of indefinitely sustainable human communities set in balanced ecologies, both urban and rural.

permaculture meaning in Tamil and Bengali

permaculture in Tamil

நிலையான வேளாண்மை, நிலைத்த வேளாண்மை

permaculture in Bengali

চিরস্থায়ী কৃষি, টেকসই পরিবেশবান্ধব কৃষিব্যবস্থা

Forms of permaculture

pluralpermacultures

Origin of permaculture

Blend of permanent + agriculture, coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978. For a long time Bill Mollison claimed to have copyrighted the word; this was never the case, as copyright law is not applicable to single words.

Words formed from permaculture

Questions about permaculture

What does permaculture mean?
Permaculture means any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural resources and enriches local ecosystems.
What is permaculture in Tamil?
Permaculture in Tamil is நிலையான வேளாண்மை, நிலைத்த வேளாண்மை. See Permaculture meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is permaculture?
Permaculture is a noun.
What is the plural of permaculture?
The plural of permaculture is permacultures.

Words near permaculture in the dictionary

  1. permacrises
  2. permacrisis
  3. permacultural
  4. permaculturalist
  5. permaculturalists
  6. permaculture
  7. permacultures
  8. permaculturist
  9. permaculturists
  10. permacunt
  11. permacunts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: permaculture (page history and authors); permaculture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); permaculture (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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