Noun: collum
| Singular | collum |
| Plural | colla |
Sample Sentences
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No sooner does a little particle of food touch the edge of the delicate collar which surrounds the collum, than it adheres to it and is carried down by currents, that circulate up one side of the collar and down the other, to the end of the collum, in which, along with an accompanying drop of water, it becomes at once engulped^([sic]). [1882, Frank Coles Phillips, Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, volume 3, page 25:]
Nouns inflected like collum
meroplasmodium,
paleostriatum,
urodeum,
siphonium,
cladodium,
apogalacticum,
surrogatum,
siglum,
accubitum,
endoplasmic reticulum,
microsclerotium,
xystum,
archipterygium,
pleiochasium,
tripudium,
endosporium,
xenium,
separatum,
viscidium,
zoœcium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin collum (“the neck”). Doublet of col. See: Latin Nouns '
collum'.