anelloni

English

Etymology

Based on Italian anello (“ring”).

Noun

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").]

See also

• anellini

Anagrams

• Iannello, lanoline, all-in-one