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Plantation

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

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Colony 76% connected

A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent s…

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Demesne 76% connected

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining,…

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Estate 76% connected

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

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Garden 76% connected

A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Settlement 76% connected

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Orangery 76% connected

A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

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Grove 92% connected

A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

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Orchard 92% connected

A garden.

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Immovable noun · 78% connection

property consisting of houses and land

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Leasehold noun · 78% connection

land or property held under a lease

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Personal estate noun · 78% connection

movable property (as distinguished from real estate)

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Personalty noun · 78% connection

movable property (as distinguished from real estate)

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Real estate noun · 78% connection

property consisting of houses and land

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Realty noun · 78% connection

property consisting of houses and land

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Accretion noun · 78% connection

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

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Amplitude noun · 78% connection

The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the risi…

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Broadcast adjective · 78% connection

Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.

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Cancer noun · 78% connection

Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so…

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Culminate adjective · 78% connection

Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.

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Dibble verb · 78% connection

To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.

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Earth noun · 78% connection

The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, includin…

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Economic growth noun · 78% connection

steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income)

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Exercise noun · 78% connection

The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habit…

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Expert adjective · 78% connection

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from…

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Exposure noun · 78% connection

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to repr…

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From preposition · 78% connection

Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever depart…

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Geodesy noun · 78% connection

That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portion…

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Growth noun · 78% connection

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…

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Hypostatical adjective · 78% connection

Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation.

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Incendiarism noun · 78% connection

The act or practice of maliciously setting fires; arson.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: practice, planting, setting, earth, growth.
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Luxuriance noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.

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Luxuriant adjective · 78% connection

Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.

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