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PLANTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
Synonyms:
grove; orchard; plantation; woodlet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("plantation" is a kind of...):
garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plantation"):
apple orchard (a grove of apple trees)
lemon grove (a grove of lemon trees)
orange grove (grove of orange trees)
peach orchard (a grove of peach trees)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
Example:
the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Plantation" is a kind of...):
colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)
Domain region:
North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("plantation" is a kind of...):
acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate (extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plantation"):
orangery (a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas)
Context examples:
We should satisfy demand for vegetable oil with profitable production systems, preserve habitats of conservation importance, and mitigate the negative effects of oil palm plantations on the environment.
(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)
Beyond was a young fir plantation, and over its olive line there rose a white whirl which drifted swiftly, like a cloud-scud on a breezy day.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I began my discourse by informing his majesty, that our dominions consisted of two islands, which composed three mighty kingdoms, under one sovereign, beside our plantations in America.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The remainder was shut off by knolls of old trees, or luxuriant plantations, and the steep woody hills rising behind, to give it shelter, were beautiful even in the leafless month of March.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
First identified in Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia in the early 1990s, TR4 has since spread to Africa and now threatens the vast banana plantations of Latin America.
(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)
I covered my head and arms with the skirt of my frock, and went out to walk in a part of the plantation which was quite sequestrated; but I found no pleasure in the silent trees, the falling fir-cones, the congealed relics of autumn, russet leaves, swept by past winds in heaps, and now stiffened together.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The researchers used vinasse, a byproduct of sugarcane ethanol and sugar production, and a residue known as POME (palm oil mill effluent), which results from palm processing and is used in the fertirrigation of plantations.
(Brazilian researchers identify microalgae that can provide biofuels, Agência Brasil)
It must be those wretched gipsies in the plantation.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, Mr. Holmes, when you were crawling in the shrubbery at High Gable I was up one of the trees in the plantation and saw you down below.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The large-scale, multidisciplinary study on palm oil plantations, in the Jambi province in Indonesia, compared the yield associated with decreased versus conventional use of fertilisers, and with mechanical versus herbicide-based weed control.
(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)
