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pseudocolonization

pseudocolonization noun: something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not.

Noun

pseudocolonization (countable and uncountable, plural pseudocolonizations)

  1. Something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not.
    • We have been working for the past 18 years on a taxonomic revision of the ants of Puerto Rico, and this fact has enabled us to avoid erroneously recording extinctions and colonizations because of misidenti®cations. Species misidentifications could result in pseudoextinctions and pseudocolonization...1997 August, Juan A. Torres, Roy R. Snelling, “Biogeography of Puerto Rican ants: a non-equilibrium case?”, in Biodiversity and Conservation, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Science+Business Media...
    • She [Gloria Anzaldúa] notes that "North Americans call this return to the homeland the silent invasion," but she begins with the pseudocolonization of Mexico by the United States: […]2000, Deborah L. Madsen, Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 14

Forms of pseudocolonization

pluralpseudocolonizations

Origin of pseudocolonization

From pseudo- + colonization.

Questions about pseudocolonization

What does pseudocolonization mean?
Pseudocolonization means something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not.
What part of speech is pseudocolonization?
Pseudocolonization is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudocolonization?
The plural of pseudocolonization is pseudocolonizations.

Words near pseudocolonization in the dictionary

  1. pseudocollegiate
  2. pseudocolloquial
  3. pseudocolonial
  4. pseudocolonialism
  5. pseudocolonies
  6. pseudocolonization
  7. pseudocolonizations
  8. pseudocolony
  9. pseudocolor
  10. pseudocolored
  11. pseudocoloring

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