capellini

[ kap-uh-lee-nee ]

noun

1. pasta in long, very fine strands.

Word History and Origins

Origin of capellini¹

< Italian, diminutive of capello hair

Example Sentences

But in a 2019 Nature paper, Capellini and his Copenhagen colleague Frido Welker reported that protein fragments from a tooth showed that, genetically, G. blacki was closely related to orangutans.

From Science Magazine

Vermicelli or capellini pasta work in this recipe, but the noodles should be broken to make toasting them easier.

From Washington Times

“We think this is really pointing to the origins of bipedalism in our genome,” Capellini says of his team’s work.

From Science Magazine

Even as other cartilage within the embryo starts to ossify into bone, Capellini’s team found this cartilage stage in the pelvis seems to persist for several more weeks, giving the developing structure more time to curve and rotate.

From Science Magazine

Terence Capellini, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, says those pelvic patterns were already emerging in early human ancestors such as the 4.4-million-year-old hominin Ardipithecus ramidus, which had slightly turned-out ilia and is thought to have at least occasionally walked on two feet.

From Science Magazine