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 plantation [plæn'teiʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 种植园, 大农场, 植树造林, 新开垦地

[医] 栽植(如牙或其他组织的植入、再植和移植)




    plantation
    [ noun ]
    1. an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

    2. <noun.possession>
    3. a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)

    4. <noun.group>
      the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century
    5. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

    6. <noun.artifact>


    Plantation \Plan*ta"tion\, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.]
    1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth
    for growth. [R.]

    2. 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.

    3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

    While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
    --B. Trumbull.

    1. The Philippine air force operates a bombing range near the plantation north of Manila.
    2. Mercedes Reyes, the plantation superintendent, said the Haitians might be thieves or drug runners and would be turned over to the police.
    3. Senators representing the liberal plantation must see a conservative black as the very definition of a strange lifestyle.
    4. Mimot's inhabitants were driven into rural communes or forced into slave labor on the rubber plantation.
    5. Walking where their ancestors toiled and played, nearly 2,000 descendants of slaves sought their roots and celebrated black history Saturday on the grounds of a restored antebellum plantation.
    6. Rebel sources confirmed their forces had withdrawn from the plantation, which adjoins the country's international airport.
    7. Police say the jungle surrounding the plantation contains 13 drug trafficking organizations and nearly a thousand guerrilla fighters.
    8. It's on the way to Japan, where everything is happening in the world." The laid-back attitude of people on Lanai, for years a paternalistic company plantation, annoyed Mr. Murdock.
    9. He lives on White House Chief of Staff John Sununu's plantation. He is indeed a sad and pathetic figure."
    10. A Daley administration, according to Davis, would be a "reinstitution of what we call plantation politics in many areas of Chicago.
    11. The action runs throughout one evening on the family plantation where Brick's father, the old patriarch Big Daddy, is dying of cancer.
    12. The plantation house no longer exists on the privately owned land, and a soybean field covers the ground where Henson's slave cabin stood, Sparks said.
    13. Some revenue growth will occur overnight, Mr. Nevin says, as the company's two synthetic-rubber plants and Liberian rubber plantation charge the joint venture for materials supplied to make tires.
    14. He predicts that the market leaders will shift from Singapore blue chips to Malaysian plantation companies.
    15. They bought a 14-room inn, the Old Manor Hotel, on an old sugar plantation.
    16. Turner, 49, also was ordered to produce public service announcements for two wildlife groups after entering the plea Tuesday in Jefferson County Court to three counts of importing the animals to his plantation near here without a permit.
    17. Later, the black candidate tried a plantation analogy. "I don't mind working," he said. "I'll go out and pick the voters.
    18. Civic leaders wooed the nine-member site selection committee like the ravishing plantation belle in a Frances Parkinson Keyes romance.
    19. The situation at the plantation Sunday was not known.
    20. You had your plantation and the 'Massa' was very much involved in the production of the cotton.
    21. Plantation residents said rebels fired mortars and automatic weapons Tuesday as dozens crossed the Farmington River _ the last natural barrier before Monrovia _ and moved onto the plantation.
    22. Gray accused Brady of "plantation politics" _ hand-picking Campbell because he controls her.
    23. Partial military conquest of Irish kings establishes rule of English crown. Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries see 'plantation' of Ireland by 75,000 British colonists 1649 Oliver Cromwell leads army to suppress Catholic revolt in Ireland.
    24. Some trucks have been turned back at guerrilla blockades, forcing the plantation to store the oil in big tanks that can accomodate 4,000 tons.
    25. Members of the ring were accused of making and selling methamphetamines and operating a marijuana plantation and other drug operations in northern California.
    26. The plantation is so huge, they can't confirm the news reports that the rebel forces have control.
    27. The Indians living in the area said this week that drug smugglers maintain a vast, 60,000-acre coca plantation there.
    28. The plantation, which sits along the James River between Richmond and Williamsburg, has a rich history.
    29. Most Tamils, Moslems and Indian Tamil plantation workers are firmly behind her as she continues to reap the benefits of popular moves to slash flour and fertiliser prices and raise public sector workers' salaries.
    30. "Richard Daley is getting ready to reopen his father's plantation," Evans, a South Side alderman, told a rally of 12,000 supporters gathered at the University of Illinois-Chicago early last week.
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