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  • adjective having only one (single) culture; of or relating to a monoculture

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Examples

  • The greens are now railing against -- these are called monocultural trees which are exactly what you in today ` s culture would expect.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2007 2007

  • While the monocultural crops of today deliver food at affordable prices, many of those who are conversant with food history and haute cuisine are becoming enamored again with the centuries-old practice of seeking out edible food from their surroundings.

    Modern Hunter-Gatherers Bruce Palling 2011

  • Granted it is rather monocultural, but still enjoyable.

    May Books 11) Fables vol 3: Storybook Love forodwaith 2009

  • They sharply criticize the opinions of E.D. Hirsch and his list of monocultural facts that in his judgement should be the knowledge that is imparted to the next generation in order to perpetuate traditional collective knowledge of US culture.

    Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks « Books « Literacy News 2009

  • What Merkel is saying is that the reality is, these people have settled here, and we have to find a way to make that much more successful; both for those people and for German society, which needs them, because of its own declining population, it needs a workforce that's much more multicultural than monocultural.

    Multiculturalism Debated In The U.S. And Abroad 2010

  • But his historical imagination bridges that gap: he apparently does see the Britain whose history he has studied and popularized as "monocultural".

    How Britain got its patriotism back | Jonathan Jones 2011

  • Instead, segregation has continued despite the fact that some of Oldham's most monocultural schools have been closed and merged since the riots, while others have been moved to different areas to seek a mixed intake.

    Oldham schools still polarised 10 years on from race riots 2011

  • The land here is degraded, monocultural olive groves, ecologically wrecked by big farmers and largely devastated by the fires of 2007 which ironically helped developers.

    Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece 2011

  • I need to not let my worlds be monoracial, monocultural -- even when their models (Hollow-Boned Desire, '50s-ish America) are deeply segregated and problematic.

    Statement of Intent, 7/30/09 kirizal 2009

  • The national public discourse is still largely conducted by a monocultural middle-class masculine elite.

    Diversity in public life: all about Adam | Editorial 2011

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