plantation

A plantation is a settlement that grows crops, or a large group of plants, trees or other flora. (noun)

An example of a plantation is a huge farm estate.

See plantation in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 83,000

See plantation in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(plăn-tāˈshən)

noun

(plăn-tāˈshən)

A city of southeast Florida, a residential suburb of Fort Lauderdale. Population: 85,900.

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