| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| mozzarella |
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| SYLLABICATION: | moz·za·rel·la |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m t s -r l , m t- |
| NOUN: | A mild white Italian cheese that has a rubbery texture and is often eaten melted, as on pizza. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian, diminutive of mozza, a cut, mozzarella, from mozzare, to cut off, from mozzo, mutilated, from Vulgar Latin *mutius, from Latin mutilis.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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