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cheese crystal

cheese crystal noun: a whitish, slightly crunchy or gritty crystalline spot that can form on cheese and most often consists of calcium lactate.

cheese crystal: a whitish, slightly crunchy or gritty crystalline spot that can form on cheese and most often...
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Noun

cheese crystal (plural cheese crystals)

  1. A whitish, slightly crunchy or gritty crystalline spot that can form on cheese and most often consists of calcium lactate.

Forms of cheese crystal

pluralcheese crystals

Questions about cheese crystal

What does cheese crystal mean?
Cheese crystal means a whitish, slightly crunchy or gritty crystalline spot that can form on cheese and most often consists of calcium lactate.
What part of speech is cheese crystal?
Cheese crystal is a noun.
What is the plural of cheese crystal?
The plural of cheese crystal is cheese crystals.

Words near cheese crystal in the dictionary

  1. cheese buttons
  2. cheese coney
  3. cheese coneys
  4. cheese crisp
  5. cheese crisps
  6. cheese crystal
  7. cheese crystals
  8. cheese curl
  9. cheese curls
  10. cheese cutter
  11. cheese cutters

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