The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collum \Col"lum\, n.; pl. Colla. [L., neck.]
(Anat.) A neck or cervix.
--Dunglison.(Bot.) Same as Collar.
--Gray.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A neck or cervix. 2 (context botany English) A collar.
Wikipedia
Collum may refer to:
- Neck, from Latin collum, such as collum femoris ( femur neck) or collum humeri ( Neck of the humerus)
- Collum (millipedes), the first segment behind the head of millipedes
Usage examples of "collum".
Then the girl drank greedily until Collum shouldered her aside so that he might fill their waterskins.
Maruha shook her head once sadly when Collum rushed to press his ear to a device.
Brandl followed, shepherding the girl, with Collum bringing up the rear.
Folding his arms and turning away from Maruha, Collum caught sight of her.
Once more, Collum cast his eye uneasily down the corridor Maruha had taken.
She saw Collum and Brandl with their backs to a blank stretch of wall, cornered by the snapping, snarling creatures that crouched sinuously before them.
Brandl had a shortsword, Collum a hollow dirk like the one Maruha held.
Before her, too hard-pressed to look up, Collum and Brandl seemed not to have noticed Maruha yet.
He stumbled backward into Collum beneath the furious onslaught of two of the hounds.
She knelt, rekindling fingerlamps, handing Brandl his harp and Collum his pack.
The blank wall against which Collum and Brandl had made their stand was cracked now with a spiderweb of fissures.
Behind her, Collum had boosted Maruha through the crack and let her pull him up after.
The pale upperlander refused to stop, even when Maruha stumbled, faint with wound fever, and Collum and Brandl had to support her between them.
Luckily only a pair of them this time, which Collum and Brandl laid low in a rush.
Maruha walked slowly, leaning against Collum, exclaiming time and again over the machinery they passed.