colonnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkəʊ.lɒn/us/ˈkoʊ.lən/colon noun [ C ] (BODY PART)
the lower and bigger half of the bowels in which water is removed from solid waste
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The digestive system
- asshole
- bowel
- cecum
- chyme
- colonic
- colorectal
- digestive system
- gastrointestinal
- ileum
- innards
- intestine
- ng
- oesophageal
- oesophagus
- omental
- omentum
- sigmoid
- tummy
- ureter
- urogenital
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colon noun [ C ] (SIGN)
B2 the symbol : used in writing, especially to introduce a list of things or a sentence or phrase taken from somewhere else
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Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- capitalize
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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