COLONIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colonized mean? 

• COLONIZED (adjective)
  The adjective COLONIZED has 1 sense:

1. inhabited by colonists

  Familiarity information: COLONIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLONIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inhabited by colonists

Synonyms:

colonised; colonized; settled

Similar:

inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)

 Context examples 

One gene, called CLE53, reduces colonization rates once the roots have been colonized.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)

Furthermore, mouse cells colonized the hydrogel and secreted extracellular matrix.

(Scientists design a new hydrogel that helps regenerate cartilage, University of Granada)

Mice colonized with S. epidermidis were protected against later infection with a disease-causing fungus.

(Skin Microbes and the Immune Response, NIH)

Researchers then took skin biopsies from two groups of mice—one group that had been colonized by S. epidermidis and another that had not.

(Scientists find microbes on the skin of mice promote tissue healing, immunity, National Institutes of Health)