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Ravioli vs Dumpling - What's the difference?

ravioli | dumpling |

As nouns the difference between dumpling and ravioli

is that dumpling is a ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough while ravioli is small square parcels of pasta filled with meat, cheese, spinach etc.

ravioli

English

(wikipedia ravioli)

Noun

  • Small square parcels of pasta filled with meat, cheese, spinach etc.
  • A dish made with ravioli.

    • Usage notes

    * The individual parcels are called "pieces of ravioli" or suchlike. The singular raviolo is reserved for a single, large parcel of the same design, but is rare. ----

    dumpling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
  • A term of endearment.
    • My little dumpling.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * apple dumpling * clootie dumpling * dumpling squid * Norfolk dumpling * * potato dumpling * raspberry dumpling * rice dumpling * soup dumpling

    See also

    * dim sum * noodle * pudding * quenelle

    References

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