colony

colony

名词 colony:

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

同义词：settlement

a group of animals of the same type living together

one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

同义词：dependency

(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell