polycultures

Noun

polyculture (countable and uncountable, plural polycultures)

1. The planting of two or more crops in the same place.
2. (uncommon) A multiculture; a polycultural society, sometimes especially one in which multiple cultures exist without one dominating.
   • What we have here is not a 'multiculture' as it is represented in multiculturalism, not a pluralist order of discrete patches of culture, all somehow, 'equally valid' within the polity, but—to form a Greek/Roman Creole—a polyculture, or at any rate a collection of cultural entities that are not (a)...2003, Roger Hewitt, edited by R. Harris and B. Rampton, Language, Youth and the Destabilisation of Ethnicity, page 190