(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.
Vineyard
Definition:
(n.) An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
(2) This seems to be the first experimental confirmation of carcinogenicity of arsenic-containing pesticides used formerly in vineyards.
(3) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
(4) "We are actively considering what is necessary to deal with that threat and we are not going to be restricted by borders," said Rhodes, briefing reporters at Martha's Vineyard, where the president is on vacation.
(5) From six captures of Drosophila melanogaster carried out in three different habitats (cellar, vineyard, and pinewood) in two different seasons of the year (spring and autumn), 60 eye-colour mutations were isolated, which were reduced to 29 loci by means of allelism tests within and between populations.
(6) There are, it is true, vineyards in the outskirts of Vienna and Bordeaux, and even one in the middle of Bel Air in Los Angeles; but the Clos Montmartre is both more central and more incongruous.
(7) But it is when you search “Vineyard” on the WikiLeaks dump that you realize these people truly inhabit a different world from the rest of us.
(8) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.
(9) It is, like many of the best vineyards, on a steep slope; it is, like all vineyards, not much to look at (vineyards are to wine as writers are to their books).
(10) Abnormal numbers of birefringent particles have been found in the lungs of seven patients (five vineyard workers, one farmer, and one rural resident) in association with a spectrum of early to late interstitial inflammation and fibrosis.
(11) A winding lane leads into the middle of vineyards where the car has to be parked, and then a five-minute walk brings you out by this ancient stone cottage.
(12) And just as the healthcare debates have been disrupted by an astonishing amount of hateful speech, so the national blogosphere is filled with bitter, ungenerous commentary about the time he cheated on an exam at Harvard; or how he called his political advisers before he called paramedics when his car plunged off a bridge on Martha's Vineyard, leaving the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, a young campaign aide, submerged for nearly nine hours; or whetherhe drank to excess.
(13) Photograph: Alamy Well off the tourist trail, southern Moravia, a hidden corner of the Czech Republic, is a beautiful spot, with lots of vineyards, and the "Garden of Europe", one of the largest artificial landscapes in Europe.
(14) In fact, he planted the world's first vineyard, and then took a fancy to its produce.
(15) n., a parasite in the spiral intestine of the skates Raja ocellata Mitchill and Raja erinacea Mitchill, is described from Vineyard Sound near Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
(16) But asbestos was detected in the soil of vineyards and in the dust of the houses.
(17) Strains of D. melanogaster derived from a vineyard population were more resistant to alcohol in the environment than strains from a population derived from an area removed from the vineyard.
(18) In summer these are wonderful paddling pools for children but, at this time of year, it's about watching big swells whomping into the sea walls and drinking a glass of sauvignon blanc from one of the many vineyards that are stacked up on the hillsides across the bay.
(19) The occupational exposure to copper sulfate, the characteristic pulmonary lesions of vineyard sprayer's lung, and the presence of copper in the liver of these patients define this new variety of hepatic granulomatosis.
(20) Photograph: Alamy Where to stay The Ikarian Winery Eccentric Ikaria takes a little getting to know, and there is no better place to do that than at this agri-tourism-themed vineyard near the island’s north coast.