phytomining

Noun

The planting and harvesting of vegetation that selectively concentrates specific metals from the environment into their tissues, for the purpose of commercial exploitation of the extracted metal.

Origin / Etymology

From phyto- (prefix meaning ‘derived from or pertaining to plants’) + mining.

Synonyms

agromining

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