| NOUN | substance | yeast, barm | a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells |
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| plant | yeast | any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division |
| Sounds | yiy'st | |
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| Rhymes | beast ... unreleased: 17 rhymes with iyst... | |
| 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 | barm | |
| 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 | |
| Adjectives | yeasty, yeastlike | of or resembling or containing yeast |
| Meaning | Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division. | |
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| Member of | Endomycetales, order Endomycetales | fungi having a zygote or a single cell developing directly into an ascus |
| Narrower | baker's yeast, brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Used as a leaven in baking and brewing |
| wine-maker's yeast, Saccharomyces ellipsoides | Used in making wine | |
| Broader | fungus | An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter |
| Spanish | levadura | |
| Catalan | llevat, rent | |
| Adjectives | yeasty | of or resembling or containing yeast |
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