Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

See also: colí and çoli

English

edit
 Escherichia coli on Wikipedia
 
Escherichia coli

Etymology

edit

Ellipsis of Bacterium coli or Bacillus coli, obsolete taxonomic names of the species (now called Escherichia coli). The word itself derives from Latin colī, genitive of colon (colon, large intestine).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

coli (plural coli)

  1. (often attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.
    Synonym: colibacillus
    • 1939 January, Thomas T. Mackie, “The Specificity of the Agglutinin Reaction for Shigella dysenteriae: II. Agglutinin Absorption Relationships between Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli”, in Journal of Bacteriology[1], volume 37, number 1, →PMID, archived from the original on 10 June 2020, page 47:
      Five of the strains of E. coli are related to only one of the S. dysenteriae strains. Three of the coli are related to two of the strains of S. dysenteriae, four are related to three of the S. dysenteriae strains, and one, A-H6, is related to all.

Derived terms

edit
edit

Translations

edit

Anagrams

edit

Catalan

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Verb

edit

coli

  1. inflection of colar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Indonesian

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Javanese ngocok + Javanese peli. Equivalent to blend of mengocok +‎ pelir.

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃo.li/
  • Hyphenation: co‧li

Noun

edit

coli

  1. (vulgar, slang) masturbation
Synonyms
edit

Verb

edit

coli

  1. (vulgar, slang) to masturbate
Synonyms
edit

Etymology 2

edit

From Malay coli, culi, probably from Hindi चोली (colī).

Noun

edit

coli

  1. (obsolete) bra
Synonyms
edit

Etymology 3

edit

From Alas-Kluet Batak coli.

Noun

edit

coli

  1. (dialect) ripe jackfruit.

Further reading

edit

Italian

edit

Verb

edit

coli

  1. inflection of colare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

edit

Latin

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

cōlī n

  1. genitive singular of cōlum (colander, strainer)

Etymology 2

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

cōlī n

  1. genitive singular of cōlum (colon (member or part of a verse or poem))
  2. genitive singular of cōlon (colon (member or part of a verse or poem))

Etymology 3

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

colī n

  1. genitive singular of colon (colon (large intestine))

Etymology 4

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Verb

edit

colī

  1. present passive infinitive of colō

Malay

edit

Etymology

edit

Probably from Hindi चोली (colī).

Pronunciation

edit
  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

edit

coli (Jawi spelling چولي, plural coli-coli, informal 1st possessive coliku, 2nd possessive colimu, 3rd possessive colinya)

  1. bra

Descendants

edit
  • Indonesian: coli