plantation
plantation
Definition
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
Plantation
Definition
Plan·ta·tion (plan tā′s̸hən)
city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 83,000
Etymology: prob. named for the large town lots, called plantations by early settlers
plantation
Synonyms
plantation
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- fir: Passed a fine plantation of Scotch firs, exactly 14 feet square.
- conifer: Turn left ( signposted ) through a small plantation of conifers.
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.
- broadleaved: Other ancient woodland sites have been replanted with conifers or broadleaved plantations, or have been converted to other habitats or land use.
- coconut: Belize's Manta Resort is situated on a former coconut plantation.
- citrus: A holiday in Kassiopi has the magnificent backdrop of Mount Pantokrator and hills covered with olive groves, vines and citrus plantations.
- non-native: Complete the establishment of 3,000 ha of upland mixed ashwood on unwooded sites, or by conversion of non-native plantations, by 2010.
- sub-tropical: The program was developed to assist foresters in choosing species suitable for tropical and sub-tropical plantations.
Modifies a noun
- forestry: Ion fluxes related to growth of plantation forestry are considered.
- shutter: Plantation shutters that a mortgage broker career role in side of the meyers was recently.
- Tamil: The author provides a brief background on the Plantation Tamils, " descendants of Indian labor migrants to the plantations during the British period.
- slavery: Blackburn reminds us, however, that racial slavery was peculiarly associated with plantation slavery.
- owner: His mother was sold to a plantation owner who lived thirty miles away.
Noun used with modifier
- conifer: Later the whole area was turned into a conifer plantation.
- banana: I ran through the banana plantation straight to him.
- monoculture: A study by Duke University in North Carolina discovered that monoculture plantations dried up local water supplies.
- forestry: The rocks are in a former forestry plantation, which has now been cleared.
- eucalyptus: Pine and eucalyptus plantations cover 4 % of the country and employ 17 % of the formal labor force.
- cocoa: Q: What about reports of slavery in cocoa plantations?
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