pseudocolonization
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pseudo- + colonization.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pseudocolonization (countable and uncountable, plural pseudocolonizations)
- Something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not.
- 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, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1106:
- 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, while the number of species does not change (in perfect agreement with the MacArthur and Wilson model).
- 2000, Deborah L. Madsen, Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 14:
- 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: […]