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单词 plantation
释义
plantationplan‧ta‧tion /plænˈteɪʃən, plɑːn- $ plæn-/ ●○○ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a coffee plantation
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • DeVore's own plantation was in the northwest of this area, adjoining the garrison at Lodz.
  • Gandhi felt that the size of the refund was less important than the plantation owners' consent to it.
  • Many plantation owners exploited their female slaves and ignored their dark-skinned offspring.
  • Rising on the left are the extensive plantations of Lael Forest.
  • The plantations would be open to foreign acquisition but overall foreign ownership would be limited to 30 or 40 percent.
  • The Cav simply agreed to stay away from his plantation.
  • The Chalice Quilt was made by slaves on a Texas plantation in 1860 in anticipation of a visit from an itinerant bishop.
  • The industrial action quickly spread to transport and municipal workers and workers on tea, sugar and tobacco plantations.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals: · a 300-hectare farm· a dairy farm· a sheep farm
a very large farm in the western US, Canada, or South America where sheep, cattle, or horses are bred: · a cattle ranch in Wyoming
British English a piece of land used for farming, that is smaller than an ordinary farm: · a smallholding used for organic farming
a large area of land in a hot country, where crops such as tea, cotton, and sugar are grown: · a rubber plantation· a tea plantation
a piece of land for farming that was given to people in the past by the US and Canadian governments: · He still farms on the family homestead, a hundred years after his grandfather received it.
American English informal an area of land used for farming or ranching: · They have a pretty big spread just south of the Canadian border.
an area of land, often with greenhouses on it, used for growing vegetables and fruit: · He runs his own market garden, and sells his produce to the big supermarkets.
an area of land with trees, used for growing fruit: · an apple orchard· cherry orchards
British English a small area of land of land, especially in a town or city, which you can use for growing your own vegetables.The land is usually owned by the local council, who charge a very low rent: · We grew the tomatoes on our allotment.
the practice of farming: · More than 75% of the land is used for agriculture.
adjective relating to growing crops: · a lack of arable land
a very large area of land with a lot of trees growing closely together: · In 1500, most of the country was forest.· the Black Forest in Germany
(also wood British English) an area of land covered with a lot of trees, that is smaller than a forest: · Behind the house were the woods that we used to play in.· Follow the path through a small wood.
an area of land that is covered with trees – used especially for describing the type of land in an area: · The site covers 74 acres of beautiful ancient woodland.
a thick forest with tall trees, in tropical parts of the world that have a lot of rain: · Tropical rainforests are home to over half of the planet’s plant and animal species.· the Indonesian rainforest
an area of tropical forest where trees and large plants grow very closely together: · the jungles of Borneo· The palace was hidden for centuries in Guatemala’s dense jungle.
a small group of trees, or an area of land planted with a particular type of fruit tree: · The temple was built in the centre of a small grove of trees.· the olive groves of southern Spain
a small area of trees or bushes growing closely together: · At the top of the field was a copse full of rabbits.
a large area of trees planted for their wood, fruit etc: · a rubber plantation
a small group of bushes, plants, or small trees growing closely together: · Tall bamboo thickets fringed the narrow river.
WORD SETS
agrarian, adjectiveagribusiness, nounagro-, prefixagro-industry, nounanimal husbandry, nounanimal rights, nounartificial insemination, nounbale, nounbale, verbbarn, nounbarnyard, nounbattery, nounbiotechnology, nounbreadbasket, nounbreed, verbbreeding, nounbroiler, nounbroiler chicken, nounBSE, nounbuckaroo, nounbull, nounbutcher, verbbyre, nouncapon, nouncattleman, nouncattle market, nouncattle prod, nounchaff, nounchicken, nounchicken run, nouncollective farm, nouncoop, nounco-op, nouncorral, nouncorral, verbcowboy, nouncowgirl, nouncowhand, nouncowpoke, nouncreamery, nouncroft, nouncrofter, nouncrofting, nouncultivate, verbcultivation, noundairy, noundairy cattle, noundairy farm, noundairymaid, noundairyman, nounDDT, noundip, verbdip, noundirt farmer, noundrover, noundry-stone wall, noundude ranch, nounDutch barn, nounextensive agriculture, factory farming, nounfallow, adjectivefarm, nounfarm, verbfarmer, nounfarmhand, nounfarmhouse, nounfarming, nounfarmland, nounfarmstead, nounfarmyard, nounfeedstock, nounfield, nounfishery, nounfish farm, nounfish meal, nounflail, verbflail, nounfleece, nounfodder, nounfold, nounfoot and mouth disease, nounforage, nounfowl, nounfree-range, adjectivefungicide, noungamekeeper, noungeld, verbgenetically modified, adjectivegentleman farmer, nounGM, adjectivegoatherd, noungraft, noungraft, verbgranary, noungreenhouse, noungreen revolution, nounGreen Revolution, nounhacienda, nounharrow, nounhatchery, nounhayloft, nounhaymaking, nounhaystack, nounheifer, nounhen house, nounherbicide, nounherd, nounherd, verbherdsman, nounhigh-yield, adjectivehired hand, nounhomestead, nounhomestead, verbhopper, nounhorticulture, nounhusbandry, nounhutch, nouninsecticide, nounintensive agriculture, irrigate, verbJersey, nounkibbutz, nounlamb, verbland agent, nounlasso, nounlasso, verblift, verblitter, nounlivestock, nounlonghorn, nounmad cow disease, nounmanure, nounmeat, nounmerino, nounmilk, nounmilk churn, nounmilking machine, nounmilking parlour, nounmilkmaid, nounmixed farming, nounmower, nounmuck, nounmuckheap, nounnursery, nounoast house, nounorangery, nounorchard, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic farming, paddock, nounpaddy, nounpasturage, nounpasture, nounpasture, verbpastureland, nounpen, nounperpendicular, adjectivepest, nounpesticide, nounpiggery, nounpigpen, nounpigsty, nounpigswill, nounpitchfork, nounplantation, nounplanter, nounplough, nounplough, verbploughboy, nounploughman, nounploughshare, nounpoultry, nounproducer, nounpullet, nounPYO, raise, verbranch, nounrancher, nounranching, nounrange, nounranger, nounrear, verbrick, nounrubber, nounrun, nounrustle, verbscarecrow, nounscythe, nounsharecropper, nounshare-cropper, nounshear, verbshearer, nounsheep-dip, nounsheepdog, nounsheep-pen, nounshepherd, nounshepherdess, nounsickle, nounsilage, nounsilo, nounslaughter, verbslaughterhouse, nounsmallholding, nounsow, verbsow, nounsprayer, nounstable, nounstable, verbstable boy, nounstall, nounstation, nounsteer, nounstock, nounstockbreeder, nounstockman, nounstockyard, nounstubble, nounsty, nounswill, nounswine, nounswineherd, nountenant farmer, nounterrace, nounthresh, verbthreshing machine, nountractor, nountrough, nountruck farm, nountrue, adverbudder, nounvillein, nounvineyard, nounweedkiller, nounweevil, nounwheat, nounwheatgerm, nounwheatmeal, nounwinnow, verbwool, nounwrangler, nounyoke, nounyoke, verb
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· Texas produced half of the US cotton crop.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Coffee stealing from large plantations provides an example.· It bordered a large plantation, some of which had been owned by Michelin.· Follow the track up the hill to the large forestry plantation.· Others he told that he had inherited a large plantation in his home state.· As well as providing the bulk of labour for large plantations, they carried out menial tasks in Colombo and other urban centres.· The family also controls a large grape plantation near Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora.· Even a large plantation of 200 to 6000 hectares usually has only two or three suitable nest sites.
· We will, of course, have to erect rabbit-proof fencing around all the new plantations.· I often have a little walk along the new plantation there.· The charges relate to trees cleared for a new plantation.
· Then, I remembered, as children we played on the ruins of the old plantation sugarmill.· The place looked more like an old plantation house.· It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations.
· They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away.
NOUN
· The sun that shines. Banana plantations creeping up the hill.
· In the eighteenth century, for example, coffee plantations were established.· We drove past the coffee plantations of Santa Tecla and down into the lowlands.· By the mid-nineteenth century, coffee plantations had largely been abandoned.· It was a proven fact that the rebel bases were spread out towards the Kivoga coffee plantations.· Even an innocent-looking cup of coffee creates soil erosion because of over-production on coffee plantations, and chronic water pollution during processing.· In the 1840s, when coffee plantations were established on a large scale, it expanded into the central highlands.· He's been a farmer, a pilot, a director of coffee plantations and an army officer.· He will be staying at a coffee plantation on the edge of town.
· The problem is exacerbated by the increase in conifer plantations.· I often see foxes, roe deer and red squirrels in the conifer plantation there.· This piece of woodland contrasts dramatically with the conifer plantation on the other side of the bridge.· Conservationists are unhappy about the prospect of conifer plantations taking over more wilderness areas of Britain.· There are extensive conifer plantations and a nature reserve.· There are both native woodland and conifer plantations which gives a rich mosaic of habitats for wildlife.· The road maintains a high level above the Sound of Sleat, although views are obstructed in places by dense conifer plantations.
· They built houses like those of the plantation owners they once worked for.· Many plantation owners exploited their female slaves and ignored their dark-skinned offspring.
· Sweetness and plight Slavery on sugar plantations is a thing of the past.· A disused sugar plantation is now the site of thriving communal maize plots.· Sadly, most never make it past the sorting stage and instead wind up as fire-lighters at a nearby sugar plantation.
· Oh, and plantation workers sometimes earn as little as 25 cents a day ... These are sick jokes.· Worst hit are the hundreds of thousands of landless plantation workers, whose livelihood has disappeared.· Coffee is cheap because the plantation workers and their families are subsidizing it.· In mid-August about 500 citrus plantation workers were dismissed after striking over overtime allowances.
VERB
· The railways brought coal to fuel the tea factories, and above all transported labour to work the plantations.· In Maryland, a family of Catholics hired Hughes to work on their plantation.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounplanttransplanttransplantationplantationplanterverbplanttransplant
1a large area of land in a hot country, where crops such as tea, cotton, and sugar are grown:  a rubber plantation2a large group of trees grown to produce wood
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