Noun
- 1. plantation, estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne
- usage: an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
- 2. Plantation, colony, settlement
- usage: 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. grove, woodlet, orchard, plantation, garden
- usage: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
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