"plantations" in the noun sense
1. plantation
an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
2. Plantation
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 consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
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