petroculture

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A culture that is dependant on and shaped by oil and petrochemicals. countable,uncountable
    — 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, surfacing now and again in the wake of foreign wars, gas price hikes, or Gulf-of-Mexico-type disasters?
  2. The cultivation of crops that can be processed into products that currently require the use of petrochemicals. uncountable
    — 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 of ethanol; oxidation-reduction potential in the rumen.

词形变化

petrocultures plural

词源

词源 1
From petro- + culture.
词源 2
Blend of petro- + agriculture.
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