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An organized unit of individuals, other than a single mated pair: A colony of ants constructs nests or rears offspring in a cooperative manner, as opposed to "aggregation".
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Ant and Related Entomology Terms
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An independent settlement sent out by a mother-Greek city: Once established, the colony was expected to be self-sufficient.
Colonies were sent out throughout Greek history, but the great age of Greek colonization extended from about 750 to 550 B.C.
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Herodotus, The Fifth-Century B.C. Greek Traveler and Historian
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(insects that live in colonies which, in some ways, resemble human cities are ants, bees, wasps, hornets, and termites)