COLONY
\kˈɒlənɪ], \kˈɒlənɪ], \k_ˈɒ_l_ə_n_ɪ]\
Definitions of COLONY
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a group of animals of the same type living together
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(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
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a group of animals of the same living together
By Princeton University
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A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
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The district or country colonized; a settlement.
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A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
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A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
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A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algae. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.
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A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.
By Oddity Software
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A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algae. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.
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A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A body of people who leave their native country and settle in another land, but remain subject to the mother country; the country settled; a group like a colony.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A body of persons who settle in another country, remaining subject to the parent state; the country so inhabited.
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Colonial.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Colonial.
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A body of emigrants in a remote region under the control of the parent country; the region so occupied; any association of individuals, as a swarm of bees.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Any collection of organisms living together, ants, bees; a group of animals or plants living together and somewhat isolated; a group of bacteria in a culture; term all the "persons" in a colonial Coelenterate.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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In descriptive bacteriology, a term used to denote a macroscopic collection of bacteria on or beneath the surface of a solid culture medium, which has developed from a single organism.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
