Meanings
- uncountableagricultureA 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.
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 20172 more examples
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 111The 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
Origin
Blend of aquaculture + hydroponics. By surface analysis, aqua- + -ponics.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans akwaponika
- akwaponikasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Arabic أكوابونيكس
- أكوابونيكسsystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Basque akuaponia
- akuaponiasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Chinese Mandarin 魚菜共生 /鱼菜共生
- 魚菜共生 /鱼菜共生system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Czech akvaponika
- akvaponikasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Danish akvaponi
- akvaponisystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Dutch aquaponics
- aquaponicssystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Estonian akvapoonika
- akvapoonikasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Finnish kiertovesiviljely, vesiviljelyn ja kalankasvatuksen yhdistäminen
- kiertovesiviljelysystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
- vesiviljelyn ja kalankasvatuksen yhdistäminensystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
- aquaponicssystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
French aquaponie
- aquaponiesystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
German Aquaponik
- Aquaponiksystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Hebrew אקוופוניקה
- אקוופוניקהsystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Hungarian akvapónia
- akvapóniasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Icelandic samrækt
- samræktsystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Indonesian akuaponik
- akuaponiksystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Irish uiscephonaic
- uiscephonaicsystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Italian acquaponica
- acquaponicasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Japanese アクアポニックス
- アクアポニックスsystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Latin aquaponica
- aquaponicasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Lithuanian akvaponika
- akvaponikasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Malay akuaponik, piskiponik
- akuaponiksystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
- piskiponiksystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Persian آکواپونیک
- آکواپونیکsystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Polish akwaponika
- akwaponikasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Portuguese aquaponia
- aquaponiasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Romanian acvaponie
- acvaponiesystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Russian аквапоника
- аквапоника (akvaponika)system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Spanish acuaponía, acuiponía
- acuaponíasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
- acuiponíasystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Swedish akvaponik
- akvaponiksystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Tamil அக்வாபோனிக்ஸ்
- அக்வாபோனிக்ஸ் (akvāpōṉiks)system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Turkish akuaponik
- akuaponiksystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Ukrainian аквапоніка
- аквапоніка (akvaponika)system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Vietnamese aquaponics
- aquaponicssystem that combines aquaculture with hydroponics
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with aquaponics
Cite this entry
aquaponics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aquaponics
“aquaponics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aquaponics. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aquaponics,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aquaponics.
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