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cannelloni

cannelloni noun: wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven.

cannelloni: wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven
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Noun

cannelloni pl (normally plural, singular cannellone)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven.
    • Hey, I gotta get going, my grandma is visiting so my mom is making me come home for lunch. / What's your mom making? / I dunno, cannelloni?2025, S.E. Case, chapter 1, in Rigsby WI, volume 1: Foothold, →ISBN, retrieved 23 Aug 2025, page 4
    Synonyms:
    manicotti

Synonyms of cannelloni

Forms of cannelloni

singularcannellone

Origin of cannelloni

From Italian cannelloni, from Latin canna (“reed”).

Questions about cannelloni

What does cannelloni mean?
Cannelloni means wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven.
What part of speech is cannelloni?
Cannelloni is a noun.

Words near cannelloni in the dictionary

  1. cannellini
  2. cannellini bean
  3. cannellini beans
  4. cannellinis
  5. cannellone
  6. cannelloni
  7. Cannells
  8. canneloid
  9. cannelon
  10. cannelons
  11. cannels

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