home territory
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3.9
- noun
- /hoʊm ˈtɛrɪtɔri/
- Specialized
:
territorio habitual
- With their immature offspring (as many as two per female), they occupy home territories in small family groups.
So we're in the swamp today, guys, this is my home territory.
- So we're in the swamp today, guys, this is my home territory.
Examples
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There is even a growing secession movement in Hahn's home territory, the port neighborhood of San Pedro.
Academic text (2002) -
Baby left me to find his mate, but male lions always leave their home territories to look for mates from another pride.
Fiction book (1990) -
Were they returned to their home territory so they could possibly be identified?
Blog text (24) -
"That being your home territory, your human instincts should make you comfortable there."
Fiction book (1998) -
Actually felines are known to hunt for miles... outside of their own home territory.
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"Carnivores will go to food provided they don't have to leave their home territories to do it."
Academic text (2005) -
In this case, economic incentives encouraged members of competing groups to capture and sell each other's members into slavery, and at the same time, decrease the population of those groups in the home territories.
Academic text (2002) -
Females that are unable to lure males to their home territory will later use this reconnaissance information to select future breeding sites, either in the same season or in years to come.
Academic text (1995) -
The scientists are finding clues about the nature of bacterial strains acceptable for symbiosis and the distributions of the two species in their home territory.
Academic text (1993) -
A female wolf will fiercely defend her home territory from any intruders.
Synonyms
174
3.0
The natural place where plants and animals live and grow
16
3.2
The place where a plant or animal normally lives and grows
4
5.1
A place where a person or animal lives
2
5.6
The area an animal usually moves in to feed and rest each day
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'the area in which an animal habitually lives' is directly derived from combining 'home' (place of residence) with 'territory' (an area of land or range). This is a straightforward, compositional noun–noun combination following common patterns across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand it.
Etymology
The phrase home territory comes from watching animals. A bird, fox, or wolf marks and defends the land they call home, their territory, by singing, leaving a smell, or fighting, so the phrase means the place an animal usually lives or its 'usual range'.