Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, having the form of a collar: applied to the pronotum when it is short, narrow, and closely applied to the mesothorax.
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I do know one thing: the Willis River, near me in Cumberland County, is on the Commonwealth’s polluted river list, and the prime pollutant is human colliform bacteria.
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And brushing your teeth next to a large fecal colliform assay just isn’t appealling.
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