anelloni

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English

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Etymology

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Based on Italian anello (ring).

Noun

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anelloni (uncountable)

  1. A type of pasta similar to rigatoni but with ridges on the inside.
    • [2011 January 27, Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, “Bowled Over”, in New York Magazine (The Underground Gourmet)‎[1], retrieved 3 January 2015:
      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]
  2. A type of pasta developed to investigate ring-shaped polymers.
    • [2014 December, “A taste for anelloni”, in Physics World[2], IOP, retrieved 3 January 2015, pages 28–31:
      So we decided to create our own "ring spaghetti" — or "anelloni" as we've decided to call it (anello in Italian meaning "ring").]

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