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English word aquaponics comes from English hydroponics, English aqua- (Water.)

hydroponics (English)

The cultivation of plants in a nutrient solution rather than in the soil.

aqua- (English)

Water.

aquaponics (English)

(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. [from 1930s].

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