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yeast
/jist/
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What does yeast mean?
noun
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
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noun
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
verb
- To ferment.
- To rise.
- (slang) To exaggerate.
proper noun
- A surname.
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The wise homebrewer starts with the purest and best-suited strain of yeast a professional laboratory can supply.
The next time she made bread, she scraped this sour stuff down into the fresh dough to serve as yeast.
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Furthermore, just as yeast germs live on and decompose sugar, so disease germs live on and decompose morbid matter and systemic poisons.