petroculture
petroculture noun: a culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.
Noun (1)
petroculture (countable and uncountable, plural petrocultures)
- A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.
- From a vantage point twenty years hence, as the study of petroculture and petrofiction develops, the question remains pressing: why is it that this mineral, utterly pervasive in the everyday lives of people in developed economies, remains mostly "offshore" in social and cultural consciousness...2012 March-April, Graeme Macdonald, “Oil and world literature”, in American Book Review, volume 33, number 3
- This essay addresses the sight of petroculture, which is to say it examines how the global oil industry is represented, and how this, in turn, conditions vision.2017, Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson, Imre Szeman, Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, page 222
Noun (2)
petroculture (uncountable)
- The cultivation of crops that can be processed into products that currently require the use of petrochemicals.
- Res: Inorganic and organic compounds of vanadium; diazo compounds; chemical and microbiological tests for vitamins; feeding and agronomie value of fermentation products: insect repellents; marketing amino acids; physiology of egg production; industrial wastes; petroculture crops: nutritional value...1977, American men & women of science: Consultants 1977, page 657
- Petroculture is like agriculture, except that plants are grown to be processed into fuels, plastics, building materials and other replacements for nonrenewable resources.1979, The Cattleman - Volume 66, page 90
Forms of petroculture
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Origin of petroculture
From petro- + culture.
Blend of petro- + agriculture.
Questions about petroculture
- What does petroculture mean?
- Petroculture means a culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals.
- What part of speech is petroculture?
- Petroculture is a noun.
- What is the plural of petroculture?
- The plural of petroculture is petrocultures.
Words near petroculture in the dictionary
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