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reˈcolonize, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To colonize (a place) anew. Hence reˈcolonizing ppl. a.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. i. Ark 60 Now while the World's re-colonizing Boat Doth on the waters over Mountains float. 1797W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. IV. 335 After this devastation, the Persian court..were desirous of recolonizing the town. 1849Grote Greece ii. xlii. V. 284 He planted in it new inhabitants, of Dorian and Messenian race, recolonizing it under the name of Messene. 1976Listener 18 Mar. 329/2 The Europeans are back, recolonising Africa.
2. Ecol. Of a plant, animal, or other organism: to return to (a former habitat of the species or group concerned).
1943J. S. Huxley in Discovery Jan. 9/1 Mountain regions..have become re-colonized since the retreat of the ice. 1954New Biol. XVII. 18 The best that can be done is to allow the elephant-grass, Pennisetum, to recolonize a fallow plot. 1958Ibid. XXVII. 47 The appropriate cells..then find their way into the damaged tissue to recolonize it. 1961Times 19 Apr. 14/7 The hares have recolonized the fields. 1963Lancet 19 Jan. 133/1 This pattern suggested that the patients' skin had been recolonised by normal commensal organisms. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 320 It [sc. a sea-urchin]..became extinct during the glacial periods, though surviving in Australia, and recolonizing New Zealand in interglacial periods.
So recoloniˈzation.
1822W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. LIII. 401 The protection shown by him to the re-colonization of Jerusalem under Nehemiah. 1884J. T. Bent in Macm. Mag. Oct. 430/1 There were many projects afloat for the re-colonisation of different parts of Hellas. 1923Jrnl. Ecol. XI. 242 In places re-colonisation by Saxifraga oppositifolia of such ‘blow-outs’ was observed. 1956Nature 11 Feb. 282/1 By recolonization, the yield of a sprayed plot may be diminished. 1958New Biol. XXVII. 47 The ‘homing’ instinct of the injected cells is so remarkable that the recolonization hypothesis was not at first accepted. 1973Nature 3 Aug. 254/2 Factors inhibiting the recolonization by plants of colliery spoil..were reviewed by American and British workers. |