apple orchard vs plantation

apple orchard and plantation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
apple orchard	Yes	No	No	No
plantation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, plantation is a hypernym of apple orchard; that is, plantation is a word with a broader meaning than apple orchard:

apple orchard: a grove of apple trees
plantation: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Other hypernyms of apple orchard include grove, orchard, woodlet.

apple orchard (noun)	plantation (noun)
a grove of apple trees	garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
	an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)