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colon
Noun
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The colon is a part of the digestive system.
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A colon is the sign :. It is often used in a sentence to indicate the beginning of a list.
Her grocery list had three items: bread, milk, and cheese.
costa
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noun
a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
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noun
(= rib)
any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)