ALIMENTARY PASTE

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Meaning:

Shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg

Synonyms:

alimentary paste; pasta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("alimentary paste" is a kind of...):

food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alimentary paste"):

mostaccioli (pasta somewhat resembling little moustaches)

dumpling; dumplings (small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough)

couscous (a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina)

manicotti (large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce)

tagliatelle (pasta cut in narrow ribbons)

cappelletti; ravioli (small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings)

penne (pasta in short tubes with diagonally cut ends)

lasagna; lasagne (very wide flat strips of pasta)

macaroni (pasta in the form of slender tubes)

vermicelli (pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti)

fettuccine; fettuccini (pasta in flat strips wider than linguine)

linguine; linguini (pasta in long slender flat strips)

fedelline (extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli)

rigatoni (tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces)

ziti (medium-sized tubular pasta in short pieces)

tortellini (small ring-shaped stuffed pasta)

spaghettini (thin spaghetti)

spaghetti (pasta in the form of long strings)

orzo (pasta shaped like pearls of barley; frequently prepared with lamb in Greek cuisine)

noodle (a ribbonlike strip of pasta)

bowtie pasta; farfalle (pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie)