"parent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The colony begins when a young queen leaves her parent colony and mates.
- The buds break off and form new floaters, and eventually all that's left of the parent colony is a dead, hollow husk.
- Sometimes this new growth gets separated from the parent colony, and a new colony of fire coral is formed, genetically identical to the original one.
- When mature, these larvae exit the atrial siphon of the adult and then settle close to the parent colony (often within meters).
- At its peak the colony numbered over 500 members, but Cabet's death in 1856 caused some members to leave this parent colony and move elsewhere.
- Young queens and males stay in their parent colony until conditions are right for the nuptial flight.
- They fly out from their parent colony in search of other colonies where virgin queens wait for them.
- Adult reproductives leave the parent colony to mate.
- Vertical stolons may also develop and attach themselves to other surfaces before detaching themselves from the parent colony.
- Each cell can generate a daughter autocolony with exactly the same number and arrangement of cells as the parent colony.
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