coll
Example Sentences
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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
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
It was intoxicating to hear him exchanging comments with Rodney; no, he hadn't finished "coll."
From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris
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
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
