colony

As nouns the difference between colony and consortium

is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while consortium is an association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.

As a noun colony

is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.

As an adjective monogyne is

describing a hive or colony (of a social insect) that has only one active queen.

As a noun colony

is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.

As an adjective polygyne is

describing a hive or colony (of a social insect) that has more than one active queen.

As nouns the difference between colony and paraclone

is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while paraclone is (biology) any of a colony of stem cells that have differing capacities for growth.

As nouns the difference between colony and cleruchy

is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while cleruchy is a form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece.

As a noun colony

is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.

As a proper noun cyrene is

cyrene.

As nouns the difference between colony and supraorganism

is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while supraorganism is (biology|ecology) a system of multiple organisms that may be considered a single organism, such as an insect colony, or an organism with endosymbionts.

As nouns the difference between colony and ectoproct

is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while ectoproct is a bryozoa or ectoprocta, a microscopic sessile moss-like aquatic animal (having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles), forming a colony.

As nouns the difference between colony and superorganism

is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while superorganism is (biology) a social colony of individuals who, through division of labour, effective communication and self-organization, form a highly connected community that functions as if it were a single organism.

As nouns the difference between colony and formicary

is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while formicary is an ant colony, a pile of earth built by ants in which they nest.