Meaning

noun an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

noun a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)

noun garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

originBorrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō.

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