land cleared for cultivation
41Madison (town), Maine — Madison is a town in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,523 at the 2000 census.HistoryThe area was once territory of the Norridgewock Indians, a band of the Abenaki nation. Early visitors describe extensive fields cleared …
42Geography of Montserrat — Montserrat Nickname: The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean Map of Montserrat …
43Greenacre, New South Wales — Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb name = Greenacre city = Sydney state = nsw caption = McGuigan Place, Greenacre lga = City of Bankstown postcode = 2190 pop = 4,175 area = propval = est = stategov = Bankstown fedgov = Blaxland near nw =… …
44newground — /nooh grownd , nyooh /, n. South Midland and Southern U.S. a tract of land recently cleared for cultivation. [1615 25, Amer.; NEW + GROUND1] * * * …
45Plantation — For other uses, see Plantation (disambiguation). A pine plantation in the United States. Plantations are usually easily distinguished from natural forests by the trees being planted in straight lines. A plantation is a large artificially… …
46History of agriculture in the People's Republic of China — For over 4,000 years, China has been a nation of farmers. By the time the People s Republic of China was established in 1949, virtually all arable land was under cultivation; irrigation and drainage systems constructed centuries earlier and… …
47Nevis — For other uses, see Nevis (disambiguation). Nevis …
48Deforestation — For other uses, see Deforestation (disambiguation). Jungle burned for agriculture in southern Mexico …
49Norridgewock — For the present day town, see Norridgewock, Maine. View of Old Point from the Hill, 1849, site of Norridgewock Village The Norridgewock were a band of the Abenaki ( People of the Dawn ) Native Americans/First Nations, an Eastern Algonquian …
50japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
