can·nel·lo·ni (kān'ə-lō'nē, kä'nə-) n. Pasta in large-sized tubes. A dish consisting of such tubes stuffed with meat, vegetables, or cheese and baked in a tomato or cream sauce.
[Italian, pl. of cannellone, tubular soup noodle, from cannello, small tube, diminutive of canna, reed, from Latin; see cane.] |