aquaponics en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌækwə-/ (General-American)
- /(ˌ)ækwəˈpɒnɪks/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- äk'wə-pŏnʹĭks (General-American)
- /ˌɑkwəˈpɑnɪks/ (General-American)
- ăk'wə- (General-American)
Etymology
Blend of aquaculture + hydroponics. By surface analysis, aqua- + -ponics.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture with hydroponics, with effluent from the water in which fish are reared being used as nutrition for plants.
The warm water in which [Donnie] Tenney's tilapia swim and grow is pumped from the fish tanks to beds nurturing basil, rosemary, and cucumber, then drained, filtered, and recirculated to the tilapia. The hybrid aquaculture-hydroponics system, dubbed aquaponics, uses pumps, aerators, greenhouse lights, and fans all powered by natural gas from an abandoned gas well.
2000 May–August, Carl Hoffmann, “Mining Fresh Water for Aquaculture”, in Appalachia, volume 33, number 2, Washington, D.C.: Appalachian Regional Commission, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, columns 1–2:The tomato may in fact have absorbed a flavor from the soil in which it was grown, one granted neither by the sand of Florida's winter tomatoes exported North, nor by hothouse aquaponics.
1990, Eugene B[loor] Brody, Psychoanalytic Knowledge, Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, →ISBN, page 111:Pumps send the dirty fish water up into beds of watercress, which filter pollutants and trickle the cleaner water back down to the fish – a symbiotic system called aquaponics.
2009 July 5, Elizabeth Royte, “Street farmer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2017:
Coordinates
geoponics · aeroponics · organoponics
Deriveds
aquaponist · aquaponically · aquaponic
Translations (39)
ga uiscephonaic (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · ml അക്വാപോണിക്സ് (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · tr akuaponik (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · fa آکواپونیک (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · pl akwaponika (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · hy ակվապոնիկա (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · hu akvapónia (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · da akvaponi (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · he אקוופוניקה (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · ms akuaponik (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · is samrækt (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · id akuaponik (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · it acquaponica (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · ms piskiponik (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · pt aquaponia (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · la aquaponica (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · es acuaponía (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · ar أكوابونيكس (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · cmn 魚菜共生 /鱼菜共生 (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · ja アクアポニックス (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · ru аквапоника (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · vi aquaponics (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · fi kiertovesiviljely (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · eu akuaponia (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · nl aquaponics (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · fi vesiviljelyn ja kalankasvatuksen yhdistäminen (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · fr aquaponie (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · lt akvaponika (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · sv akvaponik (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · es acuiponía (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · cs akvaponika (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · ro acvaponie (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · si දිය වගාව (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · et akvapoonika (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · uk аквапоніка (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · fi aquaponics (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · af akwaponika (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · de Aquaponik (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics) · ta அக்வாபோனிக்ஸ் (system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics)