Definition of Recolonize

1. v. t. To colonize again.

Definition of Recolonize

1. Verb. To colonize again, especially after decolonization. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recolonize

1. colonize [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES] - See also: colonize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recolonize

recollides
recolliding
recollimated
recollimation
recollimations
recollision
recollisions
recolonisation
recolonisations
recolonise
recolonised
recolonises
recolonising
recolonization
recolonizations
recolonize (current term)
recolonized
recolonizes
recolonizing
recolor
recolored
recoloring
recolorization
recolorizations
recolors
recolour
recoloured
recolouring
recolours
recomb

Literary usage of Recolonize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Water Quality Indicators Guide: Surface Waters by Charles R. Terrell (1993)
"For example, they may have been exterminated by a recent flood or drought and not have had time to recolonize. Or recolonization may be impossible due to ..."

2. American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection by William J. Zielinski, Thomas E. Kucera (1998)
"Hares may not begin to recolonize clearcuts until 6-7 years after cutting, thus it may take 20-25 years at southern latitudes for snowshoe hare densities to ..."

3. Weather and Rice: Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Impact of by International Rice Research Institute (1987)
"The insect pests recolonize and multiply under better crop nutrition and in the ... The natural enemies eventually recolonize and multiply to contain the ..."

4. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"Shrubs are perennial and once controlled may be slow to recolonize. However, shrubs are sometimes difficult to control and there is often resprouting after ..."

5. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse (1896)
"In his oration he had said: " There is material power enough in the North, if there be the will to use it, to overrun and by degrees to recolonize the South ..."

6. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse (1896)
"If the course of nature must be reversed for us, and the Southern Goths must march to the " beggarly land of ice " to overrun and recolonize us, ..."

7. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse (1896)
"If the course of nature must be reversed for us, and the Southern Goths must march to the " beggarly land of ice " to overrun and recolonize us, ..."

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