caseous.

Resembling cheese in texture or appearance, often describing soft, crumbly material.

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Words that belong together

• caseous material
• caseous tissue

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The report described the sample’s pale, caseous material without identifying its cause.

In the novel, caseous tissue broke apart where the outer membrane split.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Relational or color adjective; more and most only in a natural qualitative comparison. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.