a person who helps take control of an area or a country that is not their own, especially using force, and sends people from their own country to live there 在(某國家或地區)建立殖民地;移民於殖民地 the arrival of European colonizers 歐洲殖民者的到來
an animal or plant that lives or grows in large numbers in a particular area (在某一地區)聚居,大批生長 Saltgrass is the first perennial colonizer of shorelines. 鹽草是海岸線的第一個常年殖民者。