GREEN REVOLUTION
Dictionary entry overview: What does green revolution mean? • GREEN REVOLUTION (noun)
The noun GREEN REVOLUTION has 1 sense:
1. the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Familiarity information: GREEN REVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GREEN REVOLUTION (noun)
Meaning:
The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("green revolution" is a kind of...):
revolution (a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving)
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