SWISS CHEESE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Swiss cheese" is a kind of...):

cheese (a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Swiss cheese"):

Emmental; Emmentaler; Emmenthal; Emmenthaler (Swiss cheese with large holes)

Gruyere (Swiss cheese with small holes)

sapsago (a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover)

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