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Definitions for: Plantation [n] garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
[n] a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century"
[n] an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
Webster (1913) Definition: Plan*ta"tion, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.]
1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth
for growth. [R.]
2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece
of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in
the United States and West Indies, a large estate
appropriated to the production of the more important
crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate;
as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
--B. Trumbull.
Synonyms: grove, orchard, woodlet
See Also: acres, apple orchard, colony, demesne, estate, garden, land, landed estate, lemon grove, orange grove, peach orchard, settlement
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