coll
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First they "fertilized" nitrogen-fixing bacteria with a DNA "sex factor" from the common intestinal bacteria Escherichia coll, a non-nitrogen-fixing species.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Robin made his testament Upon a coll of hay; And by cam' a greedy gled And snapt him a' away.
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford
Johnson complained that no man could be properly inspired by the Pembroke "coll," or college beer, which was then commonly drunk by undergraduates, still guiltless of Rhine wines, and of collecting Chinese monsters.
From Oxford by Andrew Lang
Camb., where he was Senior Wrangler, and became a Fellow and Tutor of his coll.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
The coll of rope, on which Captain Lecky and Mabelle were seated, was completely floated by the sea.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams