blue cheese

blue cheese
noun
cheese containing a blue mold
• Syn: ↑bleu
• Hypernyms: ↑cheese
• Hyponyms: ↑Stilton, ↑Roquefort, ↑gorgonzola, ↑Danish blue, ↑Bavarian blue

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noun
Etymology: translation of French fromage bleu
: a cheese usually made of cow's milk and marked with veins of greenish blue mold

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a rich cheese in which the internal mold manifests itself in blue veins: made in France esp. from sheep's milk and elsewhere also from cow's milk and goat's milk. Also, bleu cheese.
[1920-25]

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blue cheese noun
Blue-veined cheese, eg Gorgonzola
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Main Entry: ↑blue

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blue cheese UK US noun [countable/uncountable] [singular blue cheese plural blue cheeses]
a strong-tasting cheese that is white or pale yellow and has blue lines in it
Thesaurus: types of cheesehyponym types of food or drinkhypernym

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blue cheese,
a kind of cheese containing streaks of blue mold. Also, bleu cheese.

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n. cheese containing veins of blue mold, such as Gorgonzola and Danish Blue

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noun, pl ⋯ cheeses [count, noncount]
: a kind of cheese that is white with lines of blue mold and that has a strong flavor

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ˌblue ˈcheese [blue cheese] noun uncountable, countable
cheese with lines of blue ↑mould in it

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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