pasta salad

1. 1.

   a salad having any of various pastas as the base

   Broadersalad

   Narrowermacaroni salad

Questions about pasta salad

What does pasta salad mean?

pasta salad means "a salad having any of various pastas as the base".

Is pasta salad a common word?

pasta salad is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.