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Examples of colonise
colonise
The crustaceans did not colonise new territories until after the ice had melted.
From the sciencedaily.com
It is also a terrible runner, moving on from the root to slowly colonise ground.
From the guardian.co.uk
Still, we know surprisingly little about the smallest beings that colonise Earth.
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Will humans ultimately colonise other planets and possibly the whole universe?
From the newscientist.com
Flounder and European eel were the first two species to re-colonise the river.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
It was French people who came to colonise the local people in the first place.
From the economist.com
It occurs when aquatic animals colonise the hulls of boats, pilings and pipelines.
From the newscientist.com
In the wild, plants need to disperse their seeds to survive and colonise new areas.
From the economist.com
South Americans helped colonise Easter Island centuries before Europeans reached it.
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- Colonize: settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"
- Colonization, (or Colonisation in British English), occurs whenever any one or more species populate an area. The term, which is derived from the Latin colere, "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," originally related to humans. ...
- (Colonisation (biology)) Colonisation is the process in biology by which a species spreads into new areas, regions, and continents.
- (Colonising) In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. ...
- To settle (somewhere) with colonists; To settle (a species, group of people, or the like) in a new place as a colony; To begin a new colony
- (Colonised) Bacteria which exist in an area (wound) in sufficient number to cause local or systemic signs and symptoms; not an infection.
- Colonisation is the process of establishing a colony in a new country; of replacing the original culture with that of the colonisers. ...
- (Colonisation) Microorganisms that establish themselves in a particular environment such as a body surface without producing disease
- (Colonisation) the process in which microorganisms live and reproduce in or on either the human body without causing disease, or an inanimate object such as a disinfection machine.
