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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.)..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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.

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..

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

Exterminate :: Exterminate (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice..

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.

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

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..

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

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