to recolonize

Examples

• All

• Because of adaptive management, salmon and the Nimiipuu have survived and have shown the potential to colonize and recolonize rivers, including watersheds.

  Academic text (2012)

• They must recolonize composts during the curing process, and this does not always occur.

  Academic text (2000)

• "But the siltation will also provide an important source of nutrients when plants recolonize."

  Academic text (1993)

• "The Wedge area is good habitat, so wolves will likely recolonize relatively quickly over the next year or two," Ware said.

  Blog text (17)

• Erect-crested penguins, which used to breed on Campbell Island, may recolonize now that rats are gone.

  Academic text (2008)

• The "biological vacuum" left after sterilization typically is filled within days after treatment by microorganisms that recolonize the soil.

  Academic text (2000)

• "Wolves are recolonizing our state relatively quickly," Dave Ware, a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman, told NBC News.

  Blog text (16)

• This area will be recolonized in no time, hopefully by animals that won't depredate livestock.

  Blog text (17)

• Beginning in the eighteenth century, the forest was largely cleared to plant crops; two centuries later, that same mixed hardwood and coniferous tree cover had recolonized the fallow land of abandoned hill farms.

  Academic text (1991)

• Cottonwoods, willows, and mesquites have recolonized the secondary flood plains, while palo verde trees occupy the more distant hillsides.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

R

to reestablish

vsto recolonize

37 4.3

To bring back something that stopped or was lost

is specifically about rebuilding a settled population or colony after clearance

R

to resettle

vsto recolonize

15 4.3

Move to a new place to live when something forces you to leave your home

is about reestablishing a community in the same area after abandonment or destruction

R

to repopulate

vsto recolonize

11 4.1

To fill a place again with people, animals, or plants after they disappeared

is focused on establishing a settled population or colony again after abandonment

R

to reinhabit

vsto recolonize

7.6

To live in a place again after leaving it

is about creating a new settled population rather than simply living again

Antonyms

A

to abandon

773 3.1

Leave someone or something behind permanently and without care

How Established

to thrive

241 3.2

to establish

772 4.1

to recolonize

1 6.3

to repopulate

11 4.1

to arrive

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology