"blue cheese" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /blu ˈtʃiz/ [General-American], /bluː ˈtʃiːz/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: blue cheeses [plural]
enPR: blo͞o chēzʹ [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -iːz Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} blue cheese (countable and uncountable, plural blue cheeses)
  1. A kind of cheese with bluish mold in it. Wikipedia link: blue cheese Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cheeses Synonyms: bleu cheese(Canada, US) Translations (kind of cheese with bluish mold): جُبْنَة زَرْقَاء (jubna zarqāʔ) [feminine] (Arabic), ركفورد (rekford) [Egyptian-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), 藍芝士 (Chinese Cantonese), 蓝芝士 (alt: laam⁴ zi¹ si⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 藍乾酪 (Chinese Mandarin), 蓝干酪 (lángānlào) (Chinese Mandarin), niva [feminine] (Czech), blåskimmelost [common-gender] (Danish), blå ost [common-gender] (Danish), blauwschimmelkaas [masculine] (Dutch), blua fromaĝo [singular] (Esperanto), sinihallitusjuust (Estonian), sinihomejuusto (Finnish), fromage bleu [masculine] (French), bleu [masculine] (French), Blauschimmelkäse [masculine] (German), μπλε τυρί (ble tyrí) [neuter] (Greek), גְּבִינָה כְּחֻלָּה (g'viná k'khulá) [feminine] (Hebrew), gráðostur [masculine] (Icelandic), formaggio erborinato [masculine] (Italian), ブルーチーズ (burūchīzu) (Japanese), 블루 치즈 (beullu chijeu) (Korean), көк сыр (kök sır) (Kyrgyz), ġobon tat-tursina (Maltese), blåost [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), blåmuggost [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), niebieski ser [masculine] (Polish), ser pleśniowy [masculine] (Polish), queijo azul [masculine] (Portuguese), голубо́й сыр (golubój syr) [masculine] (Russian), queso azul [masculine] (Spanish), mögelost (Swedish), ädelost [common-gender] (Swedish), blåmögelost [common-gender] (Swedish), grönmögelost [common-gender] (Swedish), kesong asul (Tagalog)

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          "word": "μπλε τυρί"
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          "code": "is",
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          "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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          "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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          "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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          "code": "ko",
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          "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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          "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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      "roman": "jubna zarqāʔ",
      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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      "word": "蓝芝士"
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      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
      "word": "藍乾酪"
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      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "ble tyrí",
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      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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      "word": "grönmögelost"
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "kind of cheese with bluish mold",
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