Meanings
- uncountableA 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 - uncountableA 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
Origin
- Italiananello“ring”
- Englishanelloni
Based on Italian anello (“ring”).
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anelloni. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anelloni
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