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Hydranth :: Hydranth (n.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

Stock :: Stock (n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc..

Point :: Point (n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion..

Colitis :: Colitis (n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis..

Colic :: Colic (a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries..

Mesocolon :: Mesocolon (n.) The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon..

Colonitis :: Colonitis (n.) See Colitis.

Intracolic :: Intracolic (a.) Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve..

Colon :: Colon (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion..

Tetracolon :: Tetracolon (n.) A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines..

Colony :: Colony (n.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range..

Aeolian :: Aeolian (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect..

Residency :: Residency (n.) A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies..

Colonel :: Colonel (n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

Meride :: Meride (n.) A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides..

Commander :: Commander (n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army..

Gonosome :: Gonosome (n.) The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively..

Colony :: Colony (n.) 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..

Plant :: Plant (n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony..

Peristyle :: Peristyle (n.) A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade..

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