Meanings
- agricultureOf a plant; pertaining to or grown using hydroponics, a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions in water, without soil.
Sid was now living in a small commune in the Shetland Islands, where he and his fellow communards were dedicated to the growing of implausibly large hydroponic onions.
1991, Will Self, The Quantity Theory of Insanity1 more example
She had been offended because he had seen her every day for ten days, then when she’d finally obtained 50 grams of genetically enhanced hydroponic marijuana for him[…]
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 24
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or relating to aquiculture
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Back-formation from hydroponics. By surface analysis, hydro- (“water”) + Ancient Greek πόνος (pónos, “work, labour”) + -ic.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish hydroponinen
- hydroponinenpertaining to or grown using hydroponics
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with hydroponic
Cite this entry
hydroponic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hydroponic
“hydroponic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hydroponic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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