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petrocultures

petrocultures is the plural of petroculture.

Meaning of petroculture

Noun (1)

petroculture (countable and uncountable, plural petrocultures)

  1. 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

Noun (2)

petroculture (uncountable)

  1. 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

Noun

petrocultures pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The study of petroculture; the study of how culture is dependent on oil and petrochemicals.

Questions about petrocultures

What does petrocultures mean?
Petrocultures means the study of petroculture; the study of how culture is dependent on oil and petrochemicals.
What is petrocultures the plural of?
Petrocultures is the plural of petroculture.
What part of speech is petrocultures?
Petrocultures is a noun.

Words near petrocultures in the dictionary

  1. Petrockstowe
  2. petroclival
  3. petrocortyne
  4. petrocortynes
  5. petroculture
  6. petrocultures
  7. petrocurrencies
  8. petrocurrency
  9. petrodentine
  10. petrodiesel
  11. petrodiesels

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