tofulike

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English

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Etymology

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tofu +‎ -like

Adjective

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tofulike (comparative more tofulike, superlative most tofulike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of tofu.
    • 2022 February 3, Tess Joosse, “Insect ranchers pour $5 million into world’s first large-scale genetic breeding facility”, in Science Magazine[1]:
      The bugs are processed into powders and oils used in pet food, fish and farm feeds, and textured tofulike “meats” for human consumption. The company also sells the shed shells of the growing mealworms as fertilizer.
    • 2012 March, Richard J. Davidson with Sharon Begley, The Emotional Life Of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--and How You Can Change Them, →ISBN:
      The mind is "embodied" in the sense that it exists within the body--specifically, in the three pounds of tofulike tissue we call the brain--and engages in bidirectional communication with it, so that the state of the mind influences the body, and the state of the body influences the mind.