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plantage

plantage noun: plants, vegetation; specifically, the planting or cultivation of plants.

Noun

plantage (countable and uncountable, plural plantages)

  1. Plants, vegetation; specifically, the planting or cultivation of plants.
    • As true as steel, as plantage to the moon.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • And thus from Maries Wombe [footnote: Isaiah 23:2] a Plant proceeded,
      Which neither setting, neither plantage needed.1634, Charles Fitz-Geffry, The blessed birth-day celebrated in some pious meditations, on the angels anthem, page 11

Examples of plantage in a sentence

  • And notwithstanding that for the space of 12 miles round about Rome, there are neither Cornes nor Wines, nor Village, Plantage, or Cultinage, save onely playne and pastoragious fields;[…]1640, William Lithgow, The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from...
  • A one-bottom plantage plough does not fully turn the slice and leaves an uneven soil profile resulting in alternating bands of the plant stand in the first year.1967, A. S. Alov, “Soil selection. 1. Methods of the use of lower horizons to raise soil fertility”, in Agrochimica, volume 11, number 2...

Forms of plantage

pluralplantages

Origin of plantage

From plant + -age. In later use influenced by French plantage and Dutch plantage.

Questions about plantage

What does plantage mean?
Plantage means plants, vegetation; specifically, the planting or cultivation of plants.
How do you use plantage in a sentence?
And notwithstanding that for the space of 12 miles round about Rome, there are neither Cornes nor Wines, nor Village, Plantage, or Cultinage, save onely playne and pastoragious fields;[…]
What part of speech is plantage?
Plantage is a noun.
What is the plural of plantage?
The plural of plantage is plantages.

Words near plantage in the dictionary

  1. plantacyanin
  2. plantacyanins
  3. plantae
  4. plantaflexor
  5. plantaflexors
  6. plantage
  7. Plantagenet
  8. Plantagenets
  9. plantages
  10. plantaginaceous
  11. plantagonine

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