- 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
- colon, El Salvadoran colon - the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos