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caneland

caneland noun: land used for the growing of sugar cane.

Noun

caneland (plural canelands)

  1. Land used for the growing of sugar cane.
    • According to William McMahon's map of 1828, 44 percent of the island was caneland.1984, B W Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
    • This reflects a considerable local migration from the peasant areas of the parish into the canelands.1965, Lawrence Alan Eyre, Land and Population in the Sugar Belt of Jamaica

Forms of caneland

pluralcanelands

Origin of caneland

From cane + land.

Questions about caneland

What does caneland mean?
Caneland means land used for the growing of sugar cane.
What part of speech is caneland?
Caneland is a noun.
What is the plural of caneland?
The plural of caneland is canelands.

Words near caneland in the dictionary

  1. canegrub
  2. canegrubs
  3. caneite
  4. Caneja
  5. Canela
  6. caneland
  7. canelands
  8. caneless
  9. canelike
  10. canella
  11. canellaceous

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