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

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.)..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Hydrosoma :: Hydrosoma (n.) All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds..

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..

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.

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

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