calandria
1 of 2noun (1)
ca·lan·dria
kəˈlandrēə
plural -s
: a heating element of an evaporator
especially : a part of a vacuum evaporating system in which the liquid to be concentrated rises through tubes surrounded by steam and descends through a central well
calandria
2 of 2noun (2)
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plural -s
: a black-headed South American mockingbird (Mimus modulator or M. orpheus) often kept as a cage bird
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Spanish, literally, calandra lark
Noun (2)
American Spanish, from Spanish, calandra lark, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin, modification of Late Greek kalandros
- thin skin
- thin smile
- thin space
- thin stroke
- thin-boiling starch
- thin-layer chromatography
- thin-shell concrete
- thin-skinned
- thin-skinnedness
- thin-wall conduit
- thinclads
- thindowns
- thine
- thiner
- thines
- thinest
- thing
- thing in action
- thing-in-itself
- thing-language
- thingabob
- thingamabob
- thingamabobs
- thingamajig
- thingamajigs