colony
plural
1.
2. Abbr. col. A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency.
3. a. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular area: the American colony in Paris. b. The area occupied by such a group.
4. A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area: an island penal colony.
5. Ecology. A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or one-celled organisms living or growing together.
6. Microbiology. A visible growth of microorganisms, usually in a solid or semisolid nutrient medium.
[Middle English colonie, from Latin colōnia, from colōnus, settler, from colere, to cultivate.]