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colones

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colon
  1. n. the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

  2. the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos [syn: El Salvadoran colon]

  3. the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos [syn: Costa Rican colon]

  4. a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal [syn: Aspinwall]

  5. a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

  6. [also: colones (pl), cola (pl)]

Usage examples of "colones".

With an exchange rate of 369,000 colones to the dollar, most monetary transactions in Costa Rica were handled in foreign currency.