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Plantation

[plan-tey-shuhn]

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noun

a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers.

a group of planted trees or plants.

History/Historical.

a colony or new settlement.

the establishment of a colony or new settlement.

Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.

adjective

(of clothing, furnishings, etc.) suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English plantacioune < Latin plantātiōn- (stem of plantātiō) a planting. See plant (v.), -ation

Related forms

plan·ta·tion·like, adjective

Example Sentences

Blacks are blamed by the same people for the effects of their heritage of the slave plantation.

Only an occasional banana grove or superannuated rubber plantation offers a spot of variety.

Each plantation economy was part of a larger national and international political economy.

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Blacks are blamed by the same people for the effects of their heritage of the slave plantation.

Only an occasional banana grove or superannuated rubber plantation offers a spot of variety.

Each plantation economy was part of a larger national and international political economy.

No agricultural crop can claim to be as environmentally friendly as a plantation of trees.

Archaeologists continue their investigation of the landscape and plantation community.

Plantation shutters blocked an enormous expanse of floor-to-ceiling windows.

The village was founded in the shade of an old, mature rubber plantation.

The plantation owner will be happy sell the trees as he values them less highly then the particular group of individuals.

Some historians believe the cakewalk derived from black servants mocking the ballroom dances held by the white plantation elite.

Instead, he turned the family plantation over to high-priced overseers whose interest was almost solely the bottom-line.

Lastly as coffee and tea plantation laboureres none of them brought any land with them.

Slave data specific to the plantation are limited to shoe and meal lists and an occasional mention in the family papers.

The former tobacco plantation was a draw for some staff and students.

Lets migrate to a paperless society and permit only the use of plantation timber for use by man.

He said that plantation production of the tea tree opened the door to guaranteed supplies of oil of uniform quality.

He's been bitter ever since his family got forced off the plantation.

Some plantation firms are simply hitching a ride on the boom in prices.

The huge losses have led plantation owners to harvest wild agaves, wiping out the bats' primary food source.

Fashioned by the hands of slaves, the elegant old plantation house was built to endure time.

His mother was shot after wandering into a corn plantation.

There is a strange resistance to using plantation wood via distillation.

At times it resembles a plantation model where few get to stay in the house.

The whole of the country is becoming a palm oil plantation.

Every morning, she takes the goats that live at the plantation out to graze.

The farmers wouldn't send their sons to school with the sons of the plantation owners.

In truth, say academics, plantation owners migrating from the lowlands have been more of a threat to the trees.

The plantation is one of the largest lavender farms in the world.

The cacao trees on the plantation are intermixed with mahogany and other timber species.

Many residents of this village live in such pastel-painted cottages, first built for pineapple plantation workers.

In addition, clearing a forest for a plantation can release carbon from exposed soil and decaying or burned-off vegetation.

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plantation (plænˈteɪʃən)

—n
1.	an estate, esp in tropical countries, where cash crops such as rubber, oil palm, etc, are grown on a large scale
2.	a group of cultivated trees or plants
3.	(formerly) a colony or group of settlers
4.	rare the planting of seeds, shoots, etc

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Word Origin & History

plantation

c.1450, "action of planting," from M.Fr. plantation, from L. plantationem (nom. plantatio) "a planting," from plantare "to plant" (see plant). Historically used for "colony, settlement in a new land" (1614); meaning "large farm on which tobacco or cotton is grown" is first recorded 1706.

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