plantation

n. தோப்பு, பண்ணை, பருத்திவிளை, புகையிலைத் தோட்டப்பண்ணை, (வர.) குடியேற்றம், குடியேறுகை.

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Plan*ta"tion, n. Etym: [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.

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