(thing) by BioTech Sat Nov 13 2004 at 0:04:59

This Latin term, which is frequently used in medicine, means "strain".

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Mon Jan 23 2006 at 14:49:39

Co"la, n.,

L. pl. of Colon.

 

© Webster 1913

Co"la (?), n. [NL., fr. a native name.] (Bot.)

(a)

A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil.

(b)

Same as Cola nut, below.

 

© Webster 1913

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