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anelloni

anelloni noun: a type of pasta similar to rigatoni but with ridges on the inside.

Noun

anelloni (uncountable)

  1. A type of pasta similar to rigatoni but with ridges on the inside.
    • The pièce de résistance, though, is a dried tubular pasta called anelloni, a fashion-forward shape that dares to wear its sauce-clinging ridges on the inside of the loop instead of on the outside[2011 January 27, Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, “Bowled Over”, in New York Magazine (The Underground Gourmet), retrieved 03 Jan 2015
  2. A type of pasta developed to investigate ring-shaped polymers.
    • So we decided to create our own "ring spaghetti" — or "anelloni" as we've decided to call it (anello in Italian meaning "ring").[2014 December, “A taste for anelloni”, in Physics World, IOP, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016, pages 28–31

Origin of anelloni

Based on Italian anello (“ring”).

Questions about anelloni

What does anelloni mean?
Anelloni means a type of pasta similar to rigatoni but with ridges on the inside.
What part of speech is anelloni?
Anelloni is a noun.

Words near anelloni in the dictionary

  1. anellation
  2. anelli
  3. anellini
  4. anellivirus
  5. Anello
  6. anelloni
  7. Anellos
  8. anelloviral
  9. anellovirus
  10. anelloviruses
  11. anelytrous

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