colony
英['kɒlənɪ]
美['kɑləni]
英英释意
- 1. a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- 2. a group of animals of the same type living together
- 3. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
- 4. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell