Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Pasta in small short tubes with diagonally cut ends.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of pen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun pasta in short tubes with diagonally cut ends

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, pl. of penna, feather, quill pen, from Latin; see penna.]

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