"plantscraper" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From plant + -scraper.",
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          "ref": "2012 December 31, Sean Poulter, “The plant skyscrapers: Giant greenhouses in city centres to herald a new age of farming”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-03:",
          "text": "Birds Eye and other food producers are investigating building 'plantscrapers', which could accommodate hundreds of storeys worth of crops, in a bid to make farming more economical, sustainable and meet increasing demand.",
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          "ref": "2017 November 18, Leanna Garfield, “This $40 million robotic 'plantscraper' will feed over 5,000 people per year”, in Business Insider, New York, N.Y.: Insider Inc., →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-24:",
          "text": "A Swedish food-tech company called Plantagon is proposing that cities consider building what it calls \"plantscrapers\" — office towers that contain giant indoor farms. Plantagon is constructing its first plantscraper in Linköping, Sweden.",
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        "A tower used for indoor farming; a farmscraper."
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          "ref": "2018 August 25, Greg Callaghan, “Why plantscrapers are springing up across the globe”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-31:",
          "text": "You could be forgiven for imagining the striking towers of One Central Park on Sydney's Broadway, whose north and west facades are smothered with up to 40,000 indigenous plants, are a one-off exercise in urban environmentalism, designed for apartment dwellers with deep pockets. But the reality is that green-covered towers – plantscrapers – are springing up across the globe.",
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          "ref": "2024 February 2, Adam Something, 0:07 from the start, in Why Green Skyscrapers are a Terrible Idea, YouTube:",
          "text": "These idiotic \"plantscrapers\", as they call them, are the ultimate symbol of pretending to be environmentally friendly while doing absolutely nothing to reduce your carbon footprint.",
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        "A tall residential building covered in plants."
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