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Noun colon has 5 senses

colon - the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
--₁ is a kind of large intestine
--₁ has parts: sigmoid vein, vena sigmoideus
--₁ has particulars:
megacolon; transverse colon; ascending colon; descending colon; sigmoid colon, sigmoid flexure
colon, El Salvadoran colon - the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
--₂ is a kind of El Salvadoran monetary unit
--₂ has parts: centavo
colon, Costa Rican colon - the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
--₃ is a kind of Costa Rican monetary unit
--₃ has parts: centimo
Colon, Aspinwall - a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
--₄ is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center; port
--₄ is a part of Panama, Republic of Panama
colon - a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
--₅ is a kind of punctuation, punctuation mark