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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calumba \Ca*lum"ba\, n. [from kalumb, its native name in Mozambique.] (Med.) The root of a plant ( Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic. [Written also colombo, columbo, and calombo.]
American calumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called American gentian. Its root has been used in medicine as bitter tonic in place of calumba.
Wikipedia
Colombo ( Sinhala: කොළඹ, pronounced ; ) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo has a population of 5.6 million metropolitan area, and 752,993 in the City proper. It is the financial centre of the island and a popular tourist destination. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the legislative capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital since Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is within the urban area of, and a satellite city of, Colombo. It is also the administrative capital of Western Province, Sri Lanka and the district capital of Colombo District. Colombo is a busy and vibrant place with a mixture of modern life and colonial buildings and ruins. It was the legislative capital of Sri Lanka until 1982.
Due to its large harbour and its strategic position along the East-West sea trade routes, Colombo was known to ancient traders 2,000 years ago. It was made the capital of the island when Sri Lanka was ceded to the British Empire in 1815, and its status as capital was retained when the nation became independent in 1948. In 1978, when administrative functions were moved to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Colombo was designated as the commercial capital of Sri Lanka.
Like many cities, Colombo's urban area extends well beyond the boundaries of a single local authority, encompassing other municipal and urban councils such as Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Municipal Council, Dehiwala Mount Lavinia Municipal Council, Kolonnawa Urban Council, Kaduwela Municipal Council and Kotikawatte Mulleriyawa Pradeshiya Sabha. The main city is home to a majority of Sri Lanka's corporate offices, restaurants and entertainment venues. Famous landmarks in Colombo include Galle Face Green, Viharamahadevi Park, Beira Lake, Colombo Racecourse, Planetarium, University of Colombo, Mount Lavinia beach, Nelum Pokuna Theatre, Colombo Lotus Tower(is being constructed) as well as the National Museum.
Colombo is a lunar impact crater that lies on the strip of rough continental terrain between Mare Fecunditatis to the east and Mare Nectaris in the west. It is located to the south of the crater Goclenius, and northwest of Cook.
The rim of Colombo is circular, although slightly indented along the northwest where Colombo A intrudes slightly into the interior. The inner wall is asymmetrical, being much more narrow to the north and northwest and wider to the southeast. The rim is somewhat eroded, and several tiny craterlets lie along the inner wall to the southeast. The small satellite crater Colombo B lies across the south-southwestern rim.
Colombo was an American soccer club based in Staten Island, New York that was a member of the American Soccer League. While only in existence for one year, the team took the ASL title under the direction of player-coach, and future Hall of Famer, Jack Hynes.
Colombo may refer to:
- Colombo, the largest city and former capital of Sri Lanka
- Colombo (surname)
- Colombo (herb)
- Colombo (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
- Colombo (crater), a lunar crater
- Colombo District, an administrative district of Sri Lanka which includes Colombo city
- Colombo, Paraná, Brazil
- Colombo Yogurt
- Colombo (aero-engine manufacturer), an Italian aero-engine manufacturer
- Colombo crime family, an American crime family based in New York
- Bagalini Colombo, an Italian ultralight aircraft design
- Operation Colombo, an operation undertaken by the DINA
Colombo is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Cristoforo Colombo, the Italian language name of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus
- Emilio Colombo, Prime Minister of Italy 1970–1972 and subsequently lifetime Senator
- Gherardo Colombo (born 1946), Italian magistrate
- Gioacchino Colombo, Italian automobile engine designer
- Giovanni Colombo (1902–1992), Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan
- Giuseppe Colombo "Bepi", Italian mathematician
- Joe Cesare Colombo (1930–1971), Italian industrial designer
- Jürgen Colombo, German track cyclist
- Luca Colombo, Italian racing cyclist
- María Colombo, Argentine field hockey player
- Realdo Colombo, anatomist and surgeon from the 16th century
- Roberto Colombo, former Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
- Umberto Colombo (1927–2006), Italian scientist
- Colombo crime family of New York, its namesake Joseph Colombo
Colombo (1931–1954) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from April 1933 to June 1934 he ran eleven times and won nine races. Colombo was an outstanding two-year-old, unbeaten in seven races in 1933 and drawing comparisons with champions such as Isinglass, Persimmon and Bayardo. In 1934 he maintained his unbeaten record by winning the Craven Stakes and the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and then finished third as the favourite in the Epsom Derby. After one more unsuccessful race he was retired to stud, where he had some success as a sire of winners until his death in 1954.
Usage examples of "colombo".
Most pilgrims are from Sri Lanka, and it is easier to fly to Chennai from Colombo and to come by train from there to Bidar, where they have a very good road transport service through Homnabad to Ananthnandi.
Chief Towns--Bombay, Madras, Calicut, Aden, Malacca, Singapore, Pegu, Colombo.
Chicago or New York, and which is a much lighter and smaller vehicle, being drawn by a Cingalese who trots along between the shafts as though it were a pleasure instead of a business, is about the only sort of a vehicle known to the natives of Colombo, and a ride in one of them is by no means an unpleasant experience, as you are certain of one thing, and that is that your horse will not shy with you and run away, no matter what strange objects he may encounter.
Colombo Cricket Grounds, where the game was played, was indeed a novelty, and the crowds of Cingalese that surrounded us as we left the hotel and looked on in open-eyed wonder were by no means the least impressive part of the circus.
In conclusion, I should say that Colombo says that the figures being short of the prescribed number were completed by Fermo Stella.
From Hong Kong she came on in The Colombo, accompanied only by her maid.
After this I asked to see the list of the passengers who arrived by the packet following the Colombo, telling the clerk who attended to me that I was on the look-out for the arrival of a friend.
Many people were talking of Cristoforo Colombo, whose name had also been mentioned by Constantia.
And I see again that extraordinary crater, collapsed in the middle of the Via Cristoforo Colombo, with the plume of gray-black tufa dust still hanging in the air above it.
The result was a great crater, collapsed in the middle of the Via Cristoforo Colombo, with a plume of gray-black tufa dust hanging in the air above it.
This was a modern district of residences, shops, and businesses, just off the Via Cristoforo Colombo, a broad, traffic-heavy avenue that snaked south from the center of Rome, running roughly parallel to the ancient Appian Way.
Her meeting was with Bruno Colombo alone, and her main task was to persuade the director that Hyslop should be made available to assist the Argos Group in the asteroid capture program.
Even so, Petersen told Edvard to stop two hundred metres short of where the Colombo was berthed, left the cab, went round to the back, called Lorraine's name and helped her down.
They moved swiftly aft, crouched low as if making a stealthy approach, an attempt in which they were rather handicapped by being flung from bulkhead to bulkhead with every lurch of the Colombo: they had tried to compensate for this by removing their boots, no doubt to reduce the noise level of their approach, a rather ludicrous tactic in the circumstances because the torpedo boat was banging and crashing about to such a high decibel extent that they could have marched purposefully along in hob-nailed boots without anyone being any way the wiser.
Petersen jumped down from the driving seat and looked at the five on the deck of the Colombo - Carlos Giacomo, Lorraine, Michael and Sarina, the last four with their rucksacks and radios beside them.