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anelloni en · NOUN

Etymology

Based on Italian anello (“ring”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable) 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:

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