Also spelled cullenders
Minimal pairs
noun
Freq #54984
Meanings
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noun
A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.
Drain the pasta in a colander.
Etymology
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.