Word Meanings - PLANTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.

• Earthfork
  A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
• Earthwards
  Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
• Plant-cane
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• PLANTCANE
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• Earthiness
  The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
• Earthwork
  Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• PLANTEATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Earthliness
  The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
• Earthworm
  Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
• Planter
  One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
• Setterwort
  The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.
• SETTINGUPEXERCISE
  Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.
• Earthling
  An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

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