drip culture vs aquiculture

drip culture and aquiculture both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drip culture	Yes	No	No	No
aquiculture	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, aquiculture is a hypernym of drip culture; that is, aquiculture is a word with a broader meaning than drip culture:

drip culture: a hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing
aquiculture: a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients

Other hypernyms of drip culture include hydroponics, tank farming.

drip culture (noun)	aquiculture (noun)
a hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing	a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients