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Colonize :: Colonize (v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.

Felonry :: Felonry (n.) A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony..

Zoogloea :: Zoogloea (n.) A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.

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

Penal :: Penal (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement..

Constantia :: Constantia (n.) A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony..

Plantation :: Plantation (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

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

Colony :: Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.

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

Settler :: Settler (n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England..

Colonial :: Colonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars..

Volvox :: Volvox (n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule..

Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves..

Kafir :: Kafir (n.) One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs..

Bryozoum :: Bryozoum (n.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.)..

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..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West..

Colonist :: Colonist (n.) A member or inhabitant of a colony.

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

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