Noun: panini pu'nee-nee
- A grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of Italian bread, sliced in half lengthways and filled with cheese, ham and/or other fillings
"He ordered a tomato and mozzarella panini for lunch"
- Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC)
Derived forms: paninis
Type of: grammarian, sandwich, sarnie [Brit, informal], syntactician
Encyclopedia: Panini, Nepal