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Swiss cheese
1. Cheese from Switzerland.
1822Lamb Let. to Coleridge 9 Mar., Your potted char, Swiss cheeses, French pies.
2. fig., with reference to the pitted or honeycombed structure of some varieties of Swiss cheese. Freq. attrib.
1924Novak & Martzloff in Amer. Jrnl. Obstetrics & Gynecol. VIII. 387 We are accustomed to speak of the endometrium as presenting a ‘swiss cheese’ pattern in these cases. Ibid. 409 The glands are of the ‘swiss cheese’ pattern, large dilated glands being found side by side with glands which are small and narrow. 1929Hall & Niles One Man's War i. 5 Passing out of the up-rush, I dropped into what was then known as a Swiss cheese section of air. 1949Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LX. 1290/1 Collapsed pumice fragments, usually less resistant than the matrix, weather to give the rock a Swiss-cheese appearance. 1968Nature 10 Feb. 513/2 Such a universe can be simulated by a ‘swiss cheese’ model in which spherical perturbations..are distributed through space. 1970J. R. Lincke Jenny was no Lady vi. 81 The planes ran into ‘Swiss-cheese’ air, downdrafts..and violent gusts. 1974A. Lurie War between Tates i. 13 Their friendship now is full of Swiss-cheese holes in which sit things which cannot be discussed.
3. Special combination: Swiss cheese plant, an evergreen climbing plant, Monstera deliciosa, of the family Araceæ, native to central America and often cultivated as a house plant for the sake of its large ovate perforated leaves.
1946M. Free All about House Plants xviii. 267 One of the most interesting [aroids] is the..Swiss Cheese Plant, because of the holes naturally formed in the much⁓divided leaves. 1955W. E. Shewell-Cooper Pot Plants i. 15 Monstera deliciosa..is usually called the Swiss Cheese plant. 1970Sunday Tel. 3 May 19/2 A variation of the ‘Swiss cheese plant’ has golden marking besides the familiar ‘holes’ in the leaves. 1981‘J. Ross’ Dark Blue & Dangerous xxiii. 130 An immense Swiss Cheese plant climbed a cement pillar. |