open texture

British  

noun

1. philosophy the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases

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open texture

Made of whole milk, with many small holes that give it an open texture, as in Port-Salut, which it also resembles, although it is stronger and coarser.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown

The cinnabar, as it appears, has accumulated in greatest quantity under impervious rocks such as shales and marls along planes that separate these from underlying rocks of more open texture, mostly limestones.

From Fossil Ice Crystals An Instance of the Practical Value of "Pure Science" by Johan August Udden

Buckram in the modern sense is a coarse open texture of cotton or hemp, loaded with gum, and used to stiffen certain articles of dress.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule

Many are of open texture, so that the eggs within can be easily seen; others are extremely strong and thick, so that one might well believe that they had been constructed by a professional thatcher.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

If the cheese is kept at high temperatures, the ripening proceeds rapidly; the cheese is short lived, and has a sharp, strong flavor, and generally a more or less open texture.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings