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Term: Plantation

Part of Speech: Noun

Sense 1: A large agricultural estate, typically found in tropical or subtropical regions, where crops such as sugarcane, coffee, or cotton are cultivated on a large scale.

Sample Sentence: The plantation in Brazil produces a significant amount of coffee beans annually.

Sense 2: A settlement or estate where a particular crop or group of plants is grown, such as a tea plantation or rubber plantation.

Sample Sentence: The workers on the tea plantation are skilled in harvesting tea leaves.

Part of Speech: Adjective

Sense 1: Referring to something characteristic of or relating to plantations.

Sample Sentence: The students visited a plantation museum to learn about the historical aspects of the area.

Part of Speech: Verb (Present tense: plantates, Gerund/Present Participle: planting, Past tense: plantated, Past participle: plantated)

Sense 1: To establish or develop a plantation.

Sample Sentence: The company decided to plantate a new sugarcane plantation in order to meet the increasing demand.

Part of Speech: Antonyms

Sense 1: Uprooting, removing, dismantling, destroying, demolishing.

Sample Sentences:

- The government initiated a plan to dismantle several plantations in an effort to protect the endangered species.

- The hurricane destroyed the cotton plantation, leaving nothing but ruins.

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