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• Plantation — For other uses, see Plantation (disambiguation). A pine plantation in the United States. Plantations are usually easily distinguished from natural forests by the trees being planted in straight lines. A plantation is a large artificially… …   Wikipedia

• plantation — [plan tā′shən] n. [L plantatio < plantare, to PLANT] 1. Archaic a colony or new settlement ☆ 2. an area growing cultivated crops 3. an estate, as in a tropical or semitropical region, cultivated by workers living on it [a sugar plantation] 4.… …   English World dictionary

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• Plantation economy — A plantation economy is an economy which is based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few staple products grown on large farms called plantations. Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income. Prominent… …   Wikipedia

• plantation — A place brought under cultivation and planted with crops or trees. A large farm. Atty. Gen. v S. B. Judges, 38 Cal 291, 295. A large area of land, cultivated by workers who live upon the land, usually devoted to the raising in quantity of one or… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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• Dockery Plantation — buildings, May 2005 Dockery Plantation was a 10,000 acre (40 km2) cotton plantation and sawmill on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born …   Wikipedia