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a combining form meaning “gelatinous, glutinous; glue,” used in the formation of compound words: colloblast.

a combining form representing colloid in compound words: collotype.

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In the UK, COTTON CANDY is more commonly known as…

Also especially before a vowel, coll-.

Words nearby collo-

Quidam commendant tanquam specificum, ad Anginam filum purpureum cum quo strangulata fuit vipera, si collo circumdetur.
The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))|John G. Bourke
Hugest betraished many menne, and of Collo was he betraied'; ed.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7)|Geoffrey Chaucer
La quantita de la uirga o uero longheza sie duno palmo como e quello del collo de la matrice.
Studies in the History and Method of Science|Various
They call it collo, from being, like most of their national dances, in a circle.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 400, February, 1849|Various

Phdrus gives us a lively description of the mule carrying the fiscal moneys: clarumque collo jactans tintinnabulum.
Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century|Samuel Johnson