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colony

英 ['kɒlənɪ] 美['kɑləni]
  • n. 殖民地;移民队

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