Hypertext Webster Gateway: "colonial"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Colonial \Co*lo"ni*al\, a. [Cf. F. colonial.]
Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic,
wars.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
colonial
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a
colony
2: of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
3: (zoology) composed of many distinct individuals united to
form a whole or colony; "coral is a colonial organism"
[syn: {compound}]
n : a resident of a colony
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