■[often with modifier]an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown (种植咖啡、甘蔗、烟草等作物的)种植园,种植场,大农场,庄园 ■an area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes 人工林场,苗木场 ■[mass noun](常作 Plantation)colonization or the settlement of emigrants, especially of English and then Scottish families in Ireland in the 16th–17th centuries under government sponsorship (尤指 16-17世纪政府赞助英格兰和苏格兰家庭移民在爱尔兰建立的)殖民地,新开垦地 ■(historical)a colony (史)殖民地
语源
late Middle English (denoting the action of planting seeds): from Latin plantatio(n-), from the verb plantare 'to plant'