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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)
  • organ donor someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation
  • brain death death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops
  • blastula 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
  • therapeutic 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
  • guama tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations
  • inosine a nucleoside that is formed by the deamination of adenosine; used in kidney transplantation to provide a temporary source of sugar
  • trophoblast the membrane that forms the wall of the blastocyst in early development; aids implantation in the uterine wall
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