| NOUN | substance | barm, yeast | a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells |
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| Meaning | A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey. | |
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| Synonym | yeast | |
| Narrower | brewer's yeast | yeast used in fermenting beer |
| mother | A stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria | |
| yeast cake | small cake of compressed moist yeast | |
| Broader | leaven, leavening | A substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid / liquid |
| Spanish | levadura | |
| Catalan | llevat | |
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