genuine adj.: pukka
A quasi-particle is, as its name suggests, not exactly real. But it is real enough to be detectable—it is a stable excitation state of some of the atoms in the helium that behaves enough like a pukka particle to be detected like one. (Economist, “Hearts of Darkness; Artificial Black Holes,” 1/26/2002, p. 83.)
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