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　Pasta is a food product made mainly from durum wheat semolina flour. It can be broadly classified into two types: small, short pasta such as macaroni and long, noodle-like pasta such as spaghetti. There are also dumpling- and board-shaped pasta.

○Long pasta
・Spaghetti is a long, round pasta dish commonly referred to as spaghetti. Spaghetti is also known as spago (spago string).

・Fettuccine is one of the long pastas familiar in Japan, often referred to as "crepe-like pasta".

・Fettuccine is one of the long pasta, often referred to as "fettuccine" in Japan.

・Bucatini is a long, tubular pasta that is thicker than spaghetti (2 to 3 mm in diameter) and has a hole in the center.

・Capellini is a long, thin pasta with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
　 　 　 　
・Linguine is flat but oval in cross section, not just thinly sliced like fettuccine.

○Short pasta
・Maccheroni is a well-known tubular macaroni pasta. Maccheroni is a short pasta with holes about 4 mm in diameter, although the thickness varies slightly.

・Penne is a tubular pasta with a diameter of about 6 mm, cut diagonally at both ends. Penne means pen nibs.

・Farfalle is a ribbon-shaped short pasta whose name comes from the meaning of butterfly.

・Rigatoni is a thick, cylindrical pasta about 2 cm long with a straight groove on the outside.

・Conchiglie is a short pasta, also called shell.　It is similar to dry pasta gnocchi, but has thin, narrow stripes on the outside instead of steps.

・Gnocchi are not gnocchi, but short pasta without potatoes, which are often available in dried form. Gnocco means "dumb and silly.

・Lasagne is a commercially available dried type of pasta that is usually about 20 cm long and less than 10 cm wide.

・Ravioli are small, square pasta with stuffing.