| A pair of French Canadians founded and helped to colonize this southern French territory. |
| Bacteria that have lost the ability to colonize are called symbiosis mutants. |
| He put down rebellions and sent his Athenian armies to colonize other areas of Asia Minor. |
| Police Chief Berryer's men routinely rounded up vagrants and sent them off to colonize Canada. |
| Without mycotrophic host plants present on the site to colonize, airborne spores of indigenous mycorrhizae are unable to persist. |
| This tolerance has practical application in bioremediation and in efforts to colonize polluted sites. |
