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Dependency :: Dependency (n.) A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America..

Colonize :: Colonize (v. i.) To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony..

Colonizer :: Colonizer (n.) One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.

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

Establish :: Establish (a.) To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions..

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

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..

Veretillum :: Veretillum (n.) Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal..

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

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country..

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

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.)..

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

Colonization :: Colonization (n.) The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies..

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

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.

Colony :: Colony (n.) A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris..

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

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