Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling cheese.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to cheese; resembling or having the qualities of cheese.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling cheese
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike.
Etymologies
- From Latin cāseus, cheese. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In fact, I remember from my pathology course that "caseous" - meaning cheese-like - is a genuine medical term describing tissue filled with pus.”
“Mtb, and is necessary for granuloma formation, it does cause immunopathology such as caseous necrosis”
“Examine material from any caseous glands microscopically and inoculate freely on to Dorset's egg medium.”
“Introduce the sputum or other material (e.g. milk deposit and cream; pus; minced gland or other organ; caseous material; broken down foci, etc.) into a sterile tube and then add an equal volume of antiformin.”
“The caseous material of canker is also present, as is a disposition to hypertrophy of the exposed sensitive structures.”
“Portions of this loose horn removed reveal beneath it a caseous foetid matter, easily removed by scraping (the perverted secretion of the keratogenous membrane).”
“But if he offer to sell me a ton of this lunar cheese, I call on him to prove the truth of the caseous nature of our satellite, before”
“After the caseous portion has coagulated (curdled) it is filtered as before, and in this case, too, the product is a fine, clear vinegar.”
“Frequently the caseous clots are not to be seen, and the stool has a clammy look reminding one of glazier's putty, while the color varies from dirty white to pale grayish yellow.”
“Old milk left in the receptacle of the teat soon changes into a curdy state, and the caseous matter not being at once removed by the next milking, is apt to irritate the lining membrane of the teat during the operation, especially when the teat is forcibly rubbed down between the finger and thumb in stripping.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caseous’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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cheese
everything cheese,expressions like
stiff cheddar,turophile's heaven
a work in progresscheddar, cheddared, cheddaring, cheedam, cheese straw, cheesed off, cheesed, cheesie, cheeseparing, cheese tree, cheesewood, cheesier and 352 more...
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Cases of cases
Inspired by the Staircase bookcase.
staircase, bookcase, basket case, lowercase, uppercase, any case, nominative case, subjective case, oblique case, accusative case, dative case, cold case and 65 more...
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Words to Remember
Just having some fun looking up words...
But if I cannot remember them, what is the point?
These cool words I am planning to memorize.anomic, defeature, provisor, centralisation, hexadecimal, caseous
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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Free Rice Words
Words gathered from the website www.freerice.com (try it out and help donate free rice to the UN World food program - yes, really)
hypogeum, natant, bongo, salutary, incunabulum, trenchant, factitious, conspectus, nutation, concupiscence, nictitate, panjandrum and 16 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Gramograms: Words that sound like let...
From --Chris Cole, "Wordplay: A curious dictionary of language oddities".
apiarian, beadier, cesium, devious, eosinophilous, effeminacy, gillotti, iberian, jacuzzi, caseous, elementarily, eminency and 29 more...
Tweets
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mollusque More like K C S. Oct 23, 2008
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