a large area of land, especially in a hot country, where crops such as coffee, sugar, rubber, etc. are grown 种植园，种植场（尤指热带国家种植咖啡、甘蔗、橡胶等的大庄园） a banana/coffee plantation 香蕉／咖啡种植园 plantation workers/owners 种植园工人/所有者 Hundreds of slaves used to work on the plantations. 数百名奴隶过去在种植园工作。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- coconut
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a large area of land that is planted with trees to produce wood 木材林地；人造林 conifer/forestry plantations 针叶树林地；种植林 a plantation of oaks 橡树林 Most of these conifer plantations will be felled over the next 10 years. 这些人造针叶林大多在接下来的10年里会被砍伐。
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting the action of planting seeds): from Latin plantatio(n-), from the verb plantare ‘to plant’.