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plantation [plænˈteɪʃən] n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) an estate, esp in tropical countries, where cash crops such as rubber, oil palm, etc., are grown on a large scale 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) a group of cultivated trees or plants 3. (Historical Terms) (formerly) a colony or group of settlers 4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Rare the planting of seeds, shoots, etc. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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I had a plantation on the peninsula, and I wanted a white overseer. "She died on the last plantation two months ago, and she died once before that when you were working for me last year," said the planter, who knew something of the ways of nativedom. Directly before him, across the twelve-mile channel, lay Florida Island; and, farther to the right, dim in the distance, he could make out portions of Malaita--the savage island, the abode of murder, and robbery, and man-eating--the place from which his own two hundred plantation hands had been recruited. |
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