plantations
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ʃən noun
1.
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.
2.
a group of planted trees or plants.
3.
4.
Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.
adjective
5.
(of clothing, furnishings, etc.) suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.
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| —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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Example sentences
The animals are rapidly losing habitat to palm oil plantations.
When labor shortages appeared on his cocoa plantations, he.
The view from a car window reveals plantations of hairy eucalyptus trees and cow pastures rife with termite mounds.
Vast tracts of tropical rainforest have been replaced by palm oil plantations for food and biofuels, satellite imagery reveals.
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