plantadas

Plantadas is a term used in Spanish and Portuguese with senses linked to the act and result of planting. As an adjective, plantada describes something that has been planted, and its feminine plural form, plantadas, agrees with feminine plural nouns (for example, plantas, parcelas de cultivo). In agricultural contexts, plantadas often refers to plots or beds where crops have been planted, such as plantadas en hileras or plantadas de árboles.

As a noun, plantada is less common in everyday use, but plantadas can function to mean “plantings” or “plantations” in certain regional varieties or descriptive passages. The meaning of the word is thus context-dependent, ranging from a simple reference to a planted area to a description of the act of planting itself.

Etymology traces plantadas to planta (plant) and the verb plantar (to plant). The form is the feminine past participle plantada, pluralized as plantadas when describing or referring to multiple planted items or plots.

Usage notes: capitalization is usually not applied unless plantadas appears as a proper noun or part of a title. In formal writing, more common terms for larger cultivated areas are plantación (Spanish) and plantação (Portuguese), while plantadas remains a flexible, descriptive variant in regional or literary usage.

See also: plantación, plantação, plantation.