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Related / Similar Words: Colon, Aspinwall, Costa Rican colon, El Salvadoran colon

Definition:

the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted;

a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter);

a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal;

the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos;

the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos;

Hyponyms: megacolon, transverse colon, ascending colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, sigmoid flexure

Part Meronyms: Panama, Republic of Panama

Language Translations:
Bulgarian: двоеточие and колон		Catalan: còlon and dos punts
Croatian: dvotočka		Dutch: dubbelpunt and karteldarm
Esperanto: dupunkto and kojlo		Finnish: kaksoispiste
French: côlon and deux points		German: Doppelpunkt and Kolon
Indonesian: titik dua		Interlingua: duo punctos
Italian: due punti		Japanese: コロン
Korean: 큰창자 and 쌍점		Polish: dwukropek and okrężnica
Portuguese: cólon and dois-pontos		Russian: двоеточие and ободочная кишка
Slovak: dvojbodka and hrubé črevo		Slovene: debelo črevo and dvopičje
Spanish: colon and dos puntos		Swedish: kolon

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