SWISS CHEESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Swiss cheese mean? 

• SWISS CHEESE (noun)
  The noun SWISS CHEESE has 1 sense:

1. hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland

  Familiarity information: SWISS CHEESE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWISS CHEESE (noun)

Sense 1

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)