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calandria

British  
/ kəˈlændrɪə /

noun

  1. a cylindrical vessel through which vertical tubes pass, esp one forming part of an evaporator, heat exchanger, or nuclear reactor

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Etymology

Origin of calandria

C20: arbitrarily named, from Spanish, literally: lark

Example Sentences

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“Just yesterday, the foreign minister reported to me that the calandria of the plutonium nuclear reactor is now out and in the next hours it will be filled with concrete and destroyed.”

From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2016

When any of the other small birds join the feast, the calandria soon chases them away.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The best songster on the Pampas is a species of mocking-bird, called by the inhabitants calandria.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles