(n.) The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
Example Sentences:
(1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(2) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
(3) Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plus the increased construction of dams and road, and shifting patterns of farming for local people and mining (for diamonds, bauxite, manganese, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold).
(4) "In our last golden age, we built an opera house with plantation money.
(5) This article examines a remarkable case of massive sterilization of approximately 1,500 workers in Costa Rica, due to exposure to a toxic nematicide called DBCP 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane), applied in large commercial banana plantations.
(6) There's also a new edict from the central forestry ministry whereby communities will be able to bulldoze up to a fifth of the forest in their locality for agriculture or plantation use.
(7) "Even in very well established coffee plantations and farms, we are hearing more and more stories of impacts."
(8) Communities are also destroyed as people who have lived off the forest’s rich resources for generations often do not own the land and are displaced to make way for new plantations.
(9) If it continues at this rate all that will be left in 20 years is a few fragmented areas of natural forest surrounded by huge manmade plantations.
(10) The report comes just a week after the first cases of ash dieback in the wider environment – outside of nurseries and plantations – was found in Wales .
(11) Colbeck told the Australian the protected listing was a “sham” because it locked up areas of plantation timber, as well as pristine old-growth forest.
(12) It does feel like British chocolate is making a renaissance after being in the doldrums for a few decades.” As well as its network of shops, Hotel Chocolat owns a cocoa plantation on St Lucia, which is home to a luxury hotel where a two-week stay costs up to £10,000.
(13) To watch more videos in this series please click here From there, we head south into the countryside where the mega-highways give way first to single-lane roads through rolling hills and then, steeper slopes of eucalyptus plantations.
(14) These films were a blithe rebuttal of the critic Edward Said’s insight that, in a novel like Mansfield Park, the “English” story necessarily concealed the story, located elsewhere but inextricable from the main narrative, of a West Indian sugar plantation.
(15) No dental fluorosis was observed in deer collected at Medway Plantation, but mild dental fluorosis was observed in a significant number of deer collected at Mount Holly Plantation.
(16) Saragih, one of nine children, was born in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, where his parents worked on an oil palm plantation carved out of the forest by a large company.
(17) The smelter was located on Mount Holly Plantation in South Carolina, and concentrations of skeletal fluoride in the deer collected at Mount Holly increased approximately five-fold 3 yr after the operation began.
(18) Some plantation companies, prompted by their customers, have promised to stop destroying the rainforest.
(19) Two strains of aerobic and mesophilic microorganisms were isolated from palm-tree plantation sand.
(20) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
Rancho
Definition:
(n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.
(n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between 1980 and 1990, 24 total thigh flap procedures were performed at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center (Downey, CA) by the Pressure Ulcer Management Service.
(2) The study was carried out in 1986-1987 on 5 houses (ranchos) in the endemic area of central Argentina.
(3) In general, at Rancho Los Amigos, patients are admitted for rehabilitation when all acute medical and surgical problems have been cleared and the patient is ready to participate in rehabilitation evaluation and therapy programs.
(4) Her agent, Max Eisenbud, confirmed on Thursday that the former British No1 will play in two ITF $25,000 tournaments, in Surprise, near Phoenix, Arizona from 16 February, then Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, the following week.
(5) In the study reported here, the Functional Assessment Inventory (FAI) was administered to 76 subjects who suffered a moderate or severe TBI and the results obtained were compared to the Rancho Los Amigos Hospital Levels of Cognitive Functioning, the Mini-Mental State and the Glasgow Outcome Scale for sensitivity in discerning vocational readiness.
(6) In a population-based study of 590 Rancho Bernardo, California men aged 30-79 years without a history of cardiovascular disease, and who were first surveyed in 1972-1974, current cigarette smokers had significantly higher mean endogenous androstenedione, estrone, and estradiol levels compared to nonsmokers.
(7) Welcome to Sunnylands, an estate in Rancho Mirage, California , nicknamed the "presidents' playground" which hopes to bring harmony to the world, starting on Friday.
(8) The Hemopump (Johnson & Johnson Interventional Systems, Rancho Cordova, CA) can be used successfully as a bridge to cardiac transplantation in patients with advanced cardiogenic shock that proves to be irreversible.
(9) Rancho Mirage is waiting to see if the leaders emerge for a stroll around town.
(10) We present a series of 30 consecutive patients referred to Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center for complications following open reduction and internal fixation of supracondylar femur fractures.
(11) The El Rancho Restaurant and Motel (867 Navajo Blvd) in Holbrook, Arizona, is a solid adobe-coloured brick building with a covered carport and a large L-shaped, two-storey motel in the back.
(12) In a 9 year follow-up of 4014 adults from 40 to 79 years old in the Rancho Bernardo Study, men under 60 years of age with a family history of heart attack were at fivefold increased risk.
(13) Men 53 to 88 years of age from the Rancho Bernardo, California, cohort who were screened for diabetes using an oral glucose tolerance test.
(14) was experimentally reproduced, starting from cercariae from naturally infected Littoridina parchappei, collected from Los Ranchos stream, near Mercedes city, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
(15) Between the years 1960 and 1985, 499 children were treated at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital for residuals of head trauma.
(16) Slow-to-recover patients are those who remain at Rancho levels II and III for extended periods of time and are candidates for sensory stimulation programs.
(17) A 3 year prospective study of 2342 healthy non-institutionalized men and women aged 50-89 years old, residing in Rancho Bernardo, California, confirmed the following findings.
(18) We examined the cross-sectional relationship between fasting and postchallenge insulin levels and hypertensive status in a population-based study of 653 men and 784 women, aged 50 to 93 years, in Rancho Bernardo, California.
(19) We present 121 patients who were treated for complications after major injuries to the lower limb at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center.
(20) My home for a week is Rancho Los Baños (so called because of the abundance of natural springs in the area and nothing to do with lavatories).