yeast

1. n. The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment. Source: opted

2. n. Spume, or foam, of water. Source: opted

3. n. A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth. Source: opted

4. n. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey Source: wordnet

5. n. any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division Source: wordnet

6. 1. The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment. 2. Spume, or foam, of water. They melt thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Byron. A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth. Yeast cake, a mealy cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeast plant, and used as a conveniently transportable substitute for yeast. -- Yeast plant (Bot.), the vegetable organism, or fungus, of which beer yeast consists. The yeast plant is composed of simple cells, or granules, about one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter, often united into filaments which reproduce by budding, and under certain circumstances by the formation of spores. The name is extended to other ferments of the same genus. See Saccharomyces. -- Yeast powder, a baling powder, -- used instead of yeast in leavening bread. Source: webster

7. A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, ratherthan in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of theorders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as ayeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth. Yeastcake, a mealy cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeastplant, and used as a conveniently transportable substitute for yeast.-- Yeast plant (Bot.), the vegetable organism, or fungus, of whichbeer yeast consists. The yeast plant is composed of simple cells, orgranules, about one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter, oftenunited into filaments which reproduce by budding, and under certaincircumstances by the formation of spores. The name is extended toother ferments of the same genus. See Saccharomyces.-- Yeast powder, a baling powder, -- used instead of yeast inleavening bread. Source: adambom

8. n:100 n. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey n. any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division Source: ecdict

Thesaurus links

From the definitions

Explore more