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colonise
1. where docks and nettles colonise infill
2. What about some hardy perennials? That grey-green ferny leaved thing, the label says it’ll have daisy-like flowers in the summer, and what about half a dozen of those bedding plants? Maybe some tough-looking grasses would colonise part of the border
3. The tribe scurried eagerly into the undergrowth to colonise
4. If this predatory nightmare had managed to survive, it would again colonise the lake and there would be little hope of restoring the huge variety of smaller fish that were the originally inhabitants
5. Lyell asks, and assigns certain reasons in answer, why have not seals and bats given birth on such islands to forms fitted to live on the land? But seals would necessarily be first converted into terrestrial carnivorous animals of considerable size, and bats into terrestrial insectivorous animals; for the former there would be no prey; for the bats ground-insects would serve as food, but these would already be largely preyed on by the reptiles or birds, which first colonise and abound on most oceanic islands