Thesaurus: diastase

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1. n. A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
2. A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar. Note: The name is more particularly applied to that ferment formed during the germination of grain, as in the malting of barley; but it is also occasionally used to designate the amylolytic ferment contained in animal fluids, as in the saliva.
3. A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starchand dextrin into sugar.
4. n. A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.