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the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

Act of taking up plants from beds.

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

The act or process of implantating.

The act of planting again; a replanting. [R.] Hallywell.

The act of supplanting or displacing. Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness. Cloeridge.

The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal. The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta. Broome.

of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations. [Australia]

A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the ha…

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.] To forsake or destitute a plantation. Bacon.

ural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation. Is Lucius general of the forces Shak.

k or discussion; rumor; report. "The noise goes." Shak. What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.

A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.

here young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.

The exercise of the power of choice; choice. Transplantation must proceed from the option of the people, else it sounds like an exile. Bacon.

A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.

One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.

The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

n of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.