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COLONIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A resident of a colony
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("colonial" is a kind of...):
occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)
Holonyms ("colonial" is a member of...):
colony; settlement (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)
Derivation:
colonial (of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
Example:
coral is a colonial organism
Synonyms:
colonial; compound
Classified under:
Similar:
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
Domain category:
zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
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)
Derivation:
colonial (a resident of a colony)
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)
colony (a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
colony (a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together)
Derivation:
colony (a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together)
