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Definitions of plantation
  1. noun
    garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

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  2. noun
    an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
  3. noun
    a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
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Definition that contains plantation
  • harvest remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
  • planter the owner or manager of a plantation
  • tubman United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
  • morning-after pill a large dose of estrogen taken orally within 24 to 72 hours after intercourse; prevents implantation of a fertilized ovum and so acts as a contraceptive; commonly used after rape or incest
  • biomedical cloning nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant
  • blastosphere early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs
  • seed oyster a young oyster especially of a size for transplantation
  • eye bank a place for storing and preserving corneas that are obtained from human corpses immediately after death; used for corneal transplantation to patients with corneal defects
  • inga laurina tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations
  • organ donor someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation
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