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the texture caught between solid and liquid, daring you to keep chewing.
means Describing something made of, resembling, or breaking into long thin fibers or threads — tough, sinewy, and hard to cut cleanly through.
from From 'string' plus the adjective ending '-y' meaning 'full of' or 'resembling.' 'String' itself is an old Germanic word, related to Old English 'streng' (a cord or rope) and a cousin of words tied to the idea of drawing tight or stretching. So 'stringy' literally means 'full of strings' — the perfect word for meat, celery, or melted cheese that pulls apart in threads.
- melted cheese
- strings form from stretched protein networks called casein
- muscle origin
- tough meat is stringy from undissolved collagen fibers
- mango villain
- fibers wedge in teeth thanks to lignified vascular bundles
- word age
- in English since the early 1600s
- cheese pull
- now a billion-dollar food marketing obsession
string theory — theoretical physics framework proposing 1-dimensional objects as fundamental, developed since 1970s
string quartet — ensemble of 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello; beethoven's 16 string quartets are canonical works
string cheese — mozzarella product you peel into strips, popularized in usa since 1970s