The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

Trees that are grown for harvesting.

A forest crop raised artificially, either by sowing or planting. ( BCFT ).

An estate on which crops are cultivated.

An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

A place of planting. The colonists at Plymouth (and other colonies such as Jamestown in Virginia) were farmers. They called their settlements plantations. They sometimes called themselves "planters."

a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century"

A plantation is a place where people plant things, usually botanics. In the 17th century, settlements and colonies involving active transfer of a colonising population, without concern for the indigenous people were sometimes called 'plantations'.