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Noun: panini  pu'nee-nee
  1. A grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of Italian bread, sliced in half lengthways and filled with cheese, ham and/or other fillings
Noun: Panini
  1. 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