colony
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- noun
- /ˈkɑləni/
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colonia
- The colony is growing and needs more ground for vegetables.
- bacterial colony
- bee colony
- ant colony
So it's it's like an Ant in a colony isn't about making more of itself.
- So it's it's like an Ant in a colony isn't about making more of itself.
- Ants create colonies, Bees create hives.
- And he's made me a little Ant in this Ant colony.
- Who would be in a position to know the tree trunk is covered with colonies of creepy Moss?
- It's not working as one Ant, smart Ant in an Ant colony.
- And they're all social in the sense that they all live in colonies.
- When this food source that all the other ants are busy carrying back to the to the colony, they'll find the new food source.
Examples
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A 10% decline per decade in the biggest colony for this species is simply not sustainable.
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A few penguins are seen in colonies other than where they hatched, but that is rare.
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Because a colony without the queen will die.
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Every ant in this colony is so precious to me.
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After several days, the colony had moved more than 5 km from where the eggs had hatched.
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Why does the bee colony need hygienic bees?
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At that time of year, some clearings support large colonies of juveniles, whereas others are empty.
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So protozoa are single cell eukaryotes, but they would form colonies and those colonies would cling together.
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The bluebottle jelly, or Portuguese Man O' War, is actually a symbiotic colony of four specialized animals.
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The researchers studied a colony of penguins living on the icy shores.
Synonyms
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2.7
A group of the same kind of animal or plant living in one area
Compounds
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A place, often on an island, where the government keeps people sent there for crimes and they cannot leave
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A British colony in the early 1600s centered on what is now Massachusetts
- Archaic
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A place ruled directly by the British king or queen, usually through a governor they choose
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9.0
A settlement founded by English settlers at Plymouth Rock in 1620 that later joined Massachusetts Bay Colony
A former province in southern South Africa settled by the Dutch and later ruled by Britain
A colony where the king gave land and the right to govern to one person or group
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Etymology
Colony comes from the Latin colonia and colere, which meant 'to farm' or 'to live in a place'. Imagine many tiny lives settling like farmers in the same field, so a biological colony is a group of the same living things living together.