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cullender

cullender is the alternative form of colander.

Meaning of colander

Noun

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

Forms of cullender

pluralcullenders

Questions about cullender

What is cullender the alternative form of?
Cullender is the alternative form of colander.

Words near cullender in the dictionary

  1. Cullen primes
  2. Cullen skink
  3. Cullen stone
  4. Cullen stones
  5. Cullenbone
  6. cullender
  7. cullenders
  8. Cullendore
  9. Cullenian
  10. Cullenmance
  11. Cullenmancer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cullender (page history and authors); colander (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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