Colony definition

Colony means a hive and its equipment and appurtenances, including bees, comb, honey, pollen, and brood.
Colony means a group of honeybees consisting of a queen, adult honeybees and brood.
Colony means a familial group of adult bees consisting of drones, workers, and a

Examples of Colony in a sentence

  • The State Project Programme Co-ordinator, Aid et Action, Plot No.9, Pavani Vilas, Dwarakapur Colony, Punjagutta, Hydeabad-500 082.

  • But before he got that year's training at the Imperial Forestry Institute he had tE> do an appreutice tour of 22 months in tlrn Colony in which he was going to serve S'l that he would be in a far better position, afte1· his post-grnduate training, to specialize in whatever line he was required and for which he was best suited.

  • Up to the present in this Colony, I think, we have been extraordinarily fo1·tunate in our ex­ perience in that respect, and great credit is due to those carrying on a very onerous task without past experience.

  • WIGHT: I take it that these officers who al'e being paid quite fair salaries are not merely b1·ought to the Colony to be traiued.

  • It is easy for us to criticize but it is very difficult for us in this Colony, al­ though we are trying to help in what way we are able, to express an opinion on the advisability as to where these supplies should be got from.


More Definitions of Colony

Colony means an aggregation of bees in any type of hive that includes queens,
Colony means any part of Her Majesty’s dominions outside the British Islands except—
Colony means the aggregate of worker bees, drones, queen and developing young living together as a family unit in a hive or other dwelling.
Colony means all of the bees living together as one (1) social unit and may include the bee equipment in which the bees are living;
Colony means an area of land not les than one thousand square metres divided or proposed to be divided into plots for residential, commercial or industrial purpose, but does not include any area of abadi deh of a village falling inside its Lal Lakir or phirny or any area of land divided of proposed to be divided-
Colony means a continuous group of octocoral polyps forming a single unit.