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Noun: colon (colons,cola)  kow-lun [N. Amer], 'kow,lón [Brit]
  1. The part of the large intestine between the caecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
    "A colonoscopy examines the entire colon for signs of disease"
     
  2. A punctuation mark (':') used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
    "He began his list with a colon: apples, oranges, and bananas"
Noun: Colon  kow'lón
  1. A port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
    - Aspinwall
Noun: colón (colones)
  1. The basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
    "The restaurant bill came to 5000 colones";
    - Costa Rican colón
     
  2. The basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
    - El Salvadoran colón

Derived forms: colones, colons

Type of: city, Costa Rican monetary unit, El Salvadoran monetary unit, large intestine, metropolis, port, punctuation, punctuation mark [Brit], urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Panama, Republic of Panama

Encyclopedia: Colon, Putumayo

Colón, La Libertad