— plantationlike , adj.
/plan tay"sheuhn/ , n.
1. a usually large farm or estate, esp. in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers.
2. a group of planted trees or plants.
3. Hist.
a. a colony or new settlement.
b. the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
4. Archaic. the planting of seeds, young trees, etc.
adj.
5. (of clothing, furnishings, etc.) suitable for a plantation or for a tropical or semitropical country.
[ 1400-50; late ME plantacioune plantation- (s. of plantatio ) a planting. See PLANT (V.), -ATION ]