colony
Example Sentences
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When John Miskelly heard about Jersey Zoo's cost-cutting plans to shut its colony of Livingstone's fruit bats last year, he was deeply concerned.
From BBC
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
