"autocolony" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914, Gilbert Morgan Smith, The Organization of the Colony in Certain Four-celled Coenobic Algae, page 1175:",
          "text": "This may be because the formation of autocolonies within the mother cell wall is a considerable advance over the condition of free-lying spherical cells, and because along with the development of this autocolonial habit there has gone almost necessarily an axial differentiation of the individual cells.",
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          "ref": "1916, George Stephen West, Algæ, page 219:",
          "text": "This fact is of considerable interest as it shows how the autocolonies of certain of the Autosporaceæ may have arisen.",
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          "ref": "1929, University of Pennsylvania. Botanical Laboratory, Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum, page 168:",
          "text": "Autocolonies of 8 cells were occasional, and of 4 cells quite frequent.",
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        "A daughter colony formed inside a cell of a parent colony."
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        "(botany) A daughter colony formed inside a cell of a parent colony."
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        "biology",
        "botany",
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  "word": "autocolony"
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