anneloni

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