Plantation vs. Harvesting

Plantationnoun

A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Plantationnoun

An area where trees are planted for commercial purposes.

Plantationnoun

The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Caribbean.

Plantationnoun

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.

Plantationnoun

The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

Plantationnoun

An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

Plantationnoun

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

Plantationnoun

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

Plantationnoun

garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Plantationnoun

an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown.

Plantationnoun

an area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes

Plantationnoun

colonization or settlement of emigrants, especially of English and then Scottish families in Ireland in the 16th–17th centuries under government sponsorship

Plantationnoun

a colony.

Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.

Harvestingnoun

(agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.

Harvestingnoun

(by extension) The gathering of any resource.

Harvestingadjective

a. & n., from Harvest, v. t.

Harvestingnoun

the gathering of a ripened crop