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mozzarella

UK/mɒt.səˈɹɛl.ə/US/mɑt.səˈɹɛl.ə/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,324 of 15,258leans spoken

Mozzarella is a soft white cheese that stretches on pizza. Fresh mozzarella, a ball of mozzarella, mozzarella and tomato.

There are two quite different things under one name: the fresh kind sold in water, which is for eating cold, and the drier block kind, which is for melting. The real Italian version is made from buffalo milk. The name comes from a verb meaning to cut off.

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Definitions of mozzarella

  1. 1nounmozzarellaA soft white cheese that stretches when melted.B1+

    “Top the pizza with tomato sauce and slices of mozzarella.”

mozzarella is a cheese.

Where it comes from

Italian mozzarella comes from mozzare, to cut off, for the way the curd is pinched into balls by hand.

  1. Latin

    mutilare

  2. Italian

    mozzarella

  3. English, today

    mozzarella

Built from

  • mozzare · Italian — to cut off

Borrowed from Italian mozzarella, from mozzare (“to cut off”), from Latin mutilare.The meaning of money derives from the early Bay Area hip-hop scene since early and is found for various food terms, including cheddar and cheese.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink

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mozzarella in the wild

  • Fresh mozzarella is generally white but may be light yellow depending on the animal's diet.

    Mozzarella

  • Fresh mozzarella makes a distinct squeaky sound when chewed or rubbed.

    Mozzarella

  • The most popular cheeses used in the preparation of pizza are mozzarella, provolone, cheddar and Parmesan.

    Pizza cheese

  • The trend of steadily-increasing production and consumption of mozzarella and pizza cheese continued into the first decade of the 21st century in the United States.

    Pizza cheese

  • Burrata is an Italian cow's milk (occasionally buffalo milk) cheese made from mozzarella and cream.

    Burrata

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.