Swiss cheese

/swɪs tʃiz/
/swɪs tʃiz/
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Other forms: Swiss cheeses

Definitions of Swiss cheese
  1. noun
    hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland
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    types:
    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
    type of:
    cheese
    a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
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