colander

• cullender
• collinder (misspelling)

From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒlɪndə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləndɚ/, /ˈkɔləndɚ/

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colander (plural colanders)

1. A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

   Hypernyms: sieve, sile, strainer

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:

     An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

• sea colander

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• colander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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