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plantation    音标拼音: [pl,ænt'eʃən]
n. 耕地,森林,殖民

耕地,森林,殖民

plantation
n 1: an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale
(especially in tropical areas)
2: 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"
3: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without
undergrowth [synonym: {grove}, {woodlet}, {orchard},
{plantation}]

Plantation \Plan*ta"tion\, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.]
1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth
for growth. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
[1913 Webster]

While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
--B. Trumbull.
[1913 Webster]

76 Moby Thesaurus words for "plantation":
anchorage, arable land, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch,
chicken farm, clump, collective farm, colonization,
cotton plantation, croft, crop, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm,
dry farm, dude ranch, empeoplement, establishment, factory farm,
fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead,
farmyard, fixation, foundation, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm,
grange, grassland, growth, hacienda, hassock, homecroft, homefarm,
homestead, inauguration, inhabiting, initiation, installation,
installment, investiture, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, lodgment,
mains, manor farm, mooring, orchard, pasture, pen, peoplement,
peopling, planting, population, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria,
rancho, settlement, settling, sheep farm, stand, station, steading,
stock farm, toft, truck farm, tuft, tussock

Plantation, FL -- U.S. city in Florida
Population (2000): 82934
Housing Units (2000): 34999
Land area (2000): 21.737874 sq. miles (56.300832 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.193331 sq. miles (0.500726 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 21.931205 sq. miles (56.801558 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57425
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 26.124354 N, 80.249503 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33317 33324
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Plantation, FL
Plantation


Plantation, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 4168
Housing Units (2000): 2837
Land area (2000): 2.447822 sq. miles (6.339829 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003509 sq. miles (0.009087 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.451331 sq. miles (6.348916 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57450
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.063568 N, 82.370146 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33317 33324
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Plantation, FL
Plantation


Plantation, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 902
Housing Units (2000): 375
Land area (2000): 0.201770 sq. miles (0.522582 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.201770 sq. miles (0.522582 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61554
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.283420 N, 85.591635 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Plantation, KY
Plantation

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  • Plantation - Wikipedia
    Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on
  • What Is a Plantation? The Dark History of the Souths Most Beautiful Homes
    Plantations are also sites of brutal oppression: They’re largely responsible for the prolific growth of slavery in the United States Curious about how plantations came to be? Here’s a primer
  • PLANTATION Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of PLANTATION is a usually large group of plants and especially trees under cultivation How to use plantation in a sentence
  • 10 Most Famous Plantations - Have Fun With History
    A plantation is a farm that primarily grows one type of cash crop, with potentially some supplementary fields for food crops and other uses It is typically centered around a plantation house Cotton, coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees, and forest trees are only few of the crops cultivated here
  • Plantation - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    A plantation is a large farm on which usually grows only one type of crop Plantations grow cash crops, mostly for export, and less for local use Crops grown on plantations include banana, sugarcane, coffee, tea, cotton and tobacco Most plantations are monocultures, which means only one kind of crop is grown there
  • Plantation | Sugar Cane, Cotton Tobacco | Britannica
    Plantation, a usually large estate in a tropical or subtropical region that is cultivated by unskilled or semiskilled labour under central direction This meaning of the term arose during the period of European colonization in the tropics and subtropics of the New World, essentially, wherever huge
  • The Plantation System - National Geographic Society
    Unlike small subsistence farms, plantations were created to grow cash crops for sale on the market Tobacco and cotton proved to be exceptionally profitable Cheap labor was used to cut production costs and maximize profits
  • PLANTATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    PLANTATION definition: 1 a large farm, especially in a hot part of the world, on which a particular type of crop is… Learn more
  • What is Plantation Agriculture? - Importance and Major Crops
    Plantation agriculture involves clearing land or forests to establish expansive farms dedicated to cultivating a single crop on a large scale This intensive method of commercial farming is typically owned by an individual or a company, employing laborers to tend the plantation
  • 20 Plantations You Should Visit in the United States - Money Inc
    Plantations are characterized by beautiful neoclassical mansions, eye-watering alleys, and they stand on acres of lush farmland Some famous Southern plantation houses have been featured in movies, and you cannot deny how incredible they look





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