yeast
1. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells;
used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
• Syn:
barm
• Derivationally related forms:
yeasty
• Hypernyms:
leaven, leavening
• Hyponyms:
yeast cake, brewer's yeast, mother
2. any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
• Derivationally related forms:
yeasty
• Hypernyms:
fungus
• Hyponyms:
baker's yeast, brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, wine-maker's yeast, Saccharomyces ellipsoides
• Member Holonyms:
Endomycetales, order Endomycetales
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