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plan·ta·tion (plan tā′s̸hən)
noun
- Archaic a colony or new settlement
- ☆ an area growing cultivated crops
- an estate, as in a tropical or semitropical region, cultivated by workers living on it a sugar plantation
- a large, cultivated planting of trees a rubber plantation
Etymology: L plantatio < plantare, to plant
Plan·ta·tion (plan tā′s̸hən)
Etymology: prob. named for the large town lots, called plantations by early settlers
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Preposition: of
- fir: Passed a fine plantation of Scotch firs, exactly 14 feet square.
Converse of object
- fel: The small birds like open ground for nesting sites and often nest in recently felled conifer plantations where there has been new planting.
Adjective modifier
- coniferous: A coniferous plantation on a long ridge from which there are great views to the north toward the rolling Cheviot Hills.
Modifies a noun
- forestry: Ion fluxes related to growth of plantation forestry are considered.
Noun used with modifier
- conifer: Later the whole area was turned into a conifer plantation.
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