Yeast

Quick meaning: Yeast is a noun meaning An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

Meaning

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

More Meanings

1. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
2. (figuratively) A frothy foam.
3. To ferment.
4. (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
5. (African-American Vernacular, slang) To exaggerate.

Example Sentences

A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect.

But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.

Word Forms

• yeasts
• yeasting
• yeasted

Synonyms for yeast

Depending on context, synonyms include barm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include barm, beer, leaven, leavening, powder, saccharomyces.

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