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
It was intoxicating to hear him exchanging comments with Rodney; no, he hadn't finished "coll."
From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris
In "Wily Beguiled," 1606: "I'll clasp thee, and clip thee; coll thee, and kiss thee, till I be better than nought, and worse than nothing."
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
I was not content with platter licking, which now appeareth to me a mighty pleasant calling but e'en I must become a broker and die sus. per coll.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
In new affection next I strove To coll an ash I saw, And he in trust received my love; Till with my soft green claw I cramped and bound him as I wove .
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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