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Words with a similar base: Costa_Rican_colon, El_Salvadoran_colon, colon

'colon'

[colon.n.01] as in: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

'colon'

[colon.n.02] as in: the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos

'colon'

[colon.n.03] as in: the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos

'colon'

[colon.n.04] as in: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal

'colon'

[colon.n.05] as in: a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

Origins

					colon (English)
└── colon (Latin)
    ├── κόλον (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
    ├── κώλον (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
    └── κῶλον (Ancient Greek (to 1453))