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

It was intoxicating to hear him exchanging comments with Rodney; no, he hadn't finished "coll."

From Martie, the Unconquered by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

Et culpam in facto, non scelus esse meo, coll.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig

While there he gave himself to the study of the theological questions then in debate, and ended by becoming a Protestant, in consequence of which he in 1545 left his coll.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

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 Hazlitt, William Carew