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Collum

//ˈkɒl.əm// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A neck, cervix, or neckline part or process.

    "No sooner does a little particle of food touch the edge of the delicate collar which surrounds the collum, than it adheres to it and is carried down by currents, that circulate up one side of the collar and down the other, to the end of the collum, in which, along with an accompanying drop of water, it becomes at once engulped^([sic])."

  2. 2
    A collar

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collum (“the neck”). Doublet of col.

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