pseudocolonization means something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
noun
- Something which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not.“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 mode”