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colonial animal
noun
, Biology.
- a collective life form comprising associations of individual organisms that are incompletely separated, as corals and moss animals.
- any of the individual organisms in such a life form.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of colonial animal1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
A town is a thing like a colonial animal.
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