colony
Example Sentences
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Termites are among the most dominant animals on the planet, forming enormous colonies that can contain millions of individuals.
From Science Daily
A traveler had found the whole colony on the Island of Wings dead.
From Literature
She established and maintained the killifish colony at the Lab's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Aging.
From Science Daily
Despite the many Aboriginal communities, the British deemed the place terra nullius—no one’s land—and established a penal colony, bringing diseases that drastically reduced the indigenous population.
Moses Brown was born in 1738 into a leading family in the British colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
From Barron's
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