aquaponics

Blend of aquaculture +‎ hydroponics.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /(ˌ)ækwəˈpɒnɪks/

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• (General American) enPR: äk'wə-pŏnʹĭks, ăk'wə-, IPA^(key): /ˌɑkwəˈpɑnɪks/, /ˌækwə-/
• Rhymes: -ɒnɪks
• Hyphenation: aqua‧pon‧ics

aquaponics (uncountable)

1. (agriculture) 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.
   • 1990, Eugene B[loor] Brody, Psychoanalytic Knowledge, Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, →ISBN, page 111:

     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.

   • 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 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.

   • 2009 July 5, Elizabeth Royte, “Street farmer”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 19 April 2017:

     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.

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