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cheese
has definitions from the fields of chemistry,food,botany
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
Used in print (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)They went shopping in the neighborhood , and bought two loaves_of_bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois , and some cheese , and a dozen eggs , and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place_Redoute - the first oranges they had seen since they landed . Related terms dairy_product food American_cheese triple_cream cream_cheese Camembert goat_cheese bleu Brie brick_cheese cheddar cottage_cheese Cheshire_cheese Edam process_cheese Gouda grated_cheese hand_cheese mozzarella Muenster Parmesan ricotta string_cheese Swiss_cheese Velveeta quark double_gloucester liederkranz limburger cheese_rind curd |
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[ verb ] used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
Examples : "Cheese it!" Related terms |
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[ verb ] wind onto a cheese, as of yarn
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[ noun ] (botany) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
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