hydroponics

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hy=dro=pon=ics

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hydroponics, n. the process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, without soil and with added nutrients.

Derivative

hydroponic adj. hydroponically adv.

Etymology

HYDRO- + Gk ponos labour

THESAURUS

hydroponics

agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, algology, aquiculture, botany, bryology, contour farming, cultivation, culture, dendrology, dirt farming, dry farming, dryland farming, farm economy, farming, fruit farming, fungology, geoponics, grain farming, husbandry, intensive farming, mixed farming, mycology, paleobotany, phycology, physiological botany, phytobiology, phytochemistry, phytoecology, phytogeography, phytography, phytology, phytomorphology, phytonomy, phytopaleontology, phytopathology, phytotaxonomy, phytoteratology, phytotomy, phytotopography, plant anatomy, plant pathology, plant physiology, pomology, rural economy, sharecropping, strip farming, structural botany, subsistence farming, systematic botany, tank farming, thremmatology, tillage, tilth, truck farming