colonial animal
Americannoun
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a collective life form comprising associations of individual organisms that are incompletely separated, as corals and moss animals.
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any of the individual organisms in such a life form.
Etymology
Origin of colonial animal
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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A town is a thing like a colonial animal.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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