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caseous

[key-see-uhs ]

adjective

1. cheeselike, especially in appearance, smell, or consistency:

2. Pathology. having the cheeselike physical effects of caseation [which is necrosis with conversion of damaged tissue into a soft cheesy substance]


origin

First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin cāse(us) cheese + -ous


examples

She said the cheese I had bought had an unforgivably caseous stench and would not allow it in the house.
The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate by Eugene Ehrlich

Its most abundant principles are cream, caseous matter or curd, and whey.
Dadd, George