coli
SayKOH-lyUS/ˈkoʊ.laɪ/UK/ˈkəʊ.laɪ/
- 1A common gut germ, often written E. coli, that lives in the intestines of people and animals.
Like tiny living things that usually live inside your gut without making you sick.
Doctors found E. coli in the sick child's gut.
Cooking meat all the way through kills most E. coli.
Similarcolibacillus
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Origin
A short form of old scientific names like Bacterium coli for the bacterium now called Escherichia coli. It comes from Latin colon, meaning the large intestine.