plantation vs thicket

plantation

noun
  • An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate. 

  • The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization. 

  • A colony established thus. 

  • A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers. 

thicket

noun
  • A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. 

  • A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. 

  • The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. 

How often have the words plantation and thicket occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )