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Answer for the clue "Bologna sausage ", 6 letters:
polony

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Word definitions for polony in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polony \Po*lo"ny\, n. [Prob. corrupt. fr. Bologn ] A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Polony is a contraction of "polymerase colony," a small colony of DNA . Polonies are discrete clonal amplifications of a single DNA molecule, grown in a gel matrix. This approach greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio. Polonies can be generated using ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. another name for Bologna sausage

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. (context obsolete English) Polish. Etymology 2 n. A kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked. Etymology 3 n. (context Scotland English) the polonaise. Etymology 4 n. (alternative form of palone English)

Usage examples of polony.

He opens it and shows it full of polonies, kippered herrings, Findon haddies and tightpacked pills.

The roof was hung with hams and polonies and sausages, there were barrels of pickled meats, stacks of fat round cheeses, cases of Hansa beer, cases of cognac, pyramids of canned truffles, asparagus tips, shrimps, mushrooms, olives in oil, and other rarities.

He opens it and shows it full of polonies, kippered herrings, Findon haddies and tightpacked pills.

Sides of smoked ham and dried polonies hung from hooks in the deck above, there were fat rounds of cheese in the racks boxes of tinned goods, racks of black bottles with waxed stoppers, bags of flour and rice, and, facing Robyn, another hatch with the locking bar chained in place by a padlock the size of her doubled fists.