| 释义 |
colonial animal in American Englishcolonial animal in American Englishnoun Biology1. a collective life form comprising associations of individual organisms that are incompletely separated, as corals and moss animals 2. any of the individual organisms in such a life form Word origin [1880–85 ]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: automatism, barnstorm, highball, interface, regionalism |