0 a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often far away -- 殖民地
1 an area surrounded by fences or walls that contains a group of houses, for example houses that have been built by an employer for its workers -- （有篱笆或围墙环绕的）住宅区
Many behavioural patterns have been identified in the chimp colony.
India was a British colony.
Europe saw its colonies as a source of raw material and a malleable workforce.
A minimum of 200 colonies were analyzed for each plasmid tested at each temperature.
The broken nature of the colonies implies transportation.
In open country, trees becomes sites for breeding colonies which may also facilitate synchronization of breeding.
In open savannah, gregarious species forage in flocks from colonies or roosts from which the daily dispersal occurs.
