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lasagna

lasagna

23 1.5
Wide flat pasta sheets that you use to make layered baked dishes
  • noun
  • /ləˈzɑːnjə/
  • US
translation icon : lámina de lasaña
  • Kids will spend inordinate time picking the spinach out of fresh-cooked lasagna, for instance, before wolfing down the pasta.
  • lasagna noodles
  • uncooked lasagna
  • lasagna recipe

Examples

  • I ordered the lasagna.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • I like to slice the ends off and you want to slice it like lasagna sheets, so quite thin.

  • The lasagna had to cook for an hour, so I found a bunch of little things to do before dinner.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • I got a free turkey and a free lasagna this year.

    Blog text (33)
  • My favorite is probably flat lasagna pasta.

  • When my mom was first married, she made lasagna and used two whole heads of garlic.

    Blog text (13)
  • Robin opens the oven and shows Sam a platter of lasagna.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Arrange a single layer of uncooked lasagna noodles (3 sheets) at the base.

    Blog text (20)
  • It's tasty and not some mushy beef stew or salty lasagna you may have tried while camping.

    Blog text (5)
  • For dinner, we enjoyed a homemade lasagna layered with rich meat sauce and gooey cheese.

Synonyms

pasta
vslasagna
255 1.0

Food made from wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, shaped into pieces and boiled, often served with sauce

is the specific wide flat baked layered form rather than the general category

How Filling

casserole
54 2.8
lasagna
  • US
23 1.5
pasta
255 1.0
soup
733 1.0
salad
550 1.0

Surface Forms

lasagna singular
lasagnas plural

Etymology

The word lasagna comes from the Italian lasagne and from an old Greek word laganon that meant 'flat sheet' or 'flat dough'. So lasagna as a pasta is the very wide, flat strips you layer in a dish.