Collum

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In anatomy and zoology, the neck, in the most general sense; the whole neck.
  • noun. The necklike prolongation of some flask-shaped infusorians, or of the choanocytes of sponges, which ends in the flagellum and is surrounded by the collar.
  • noun. In entomology, the upper part or collar of the prothorax of a beetle, usually called the pronotum.
  • noun. In botany: Same as collar, 2 .
  • noun. In mosses, the neck or tapering base of the capsule.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A neck or cervix.
  • noun. Same as Collar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A neck or cervix.
  • noun. A collar.
  • Word Usage
    "Franks collum is rubish – too many fallacies and loaded words for my time right now, but the most glaring is the regurgitation of the Downing Street Memo."
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gollum  column  slalom  solemn  
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    Ibo  abest  abi  advised  annus  
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    collar