yeast
(noun) any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
yeast, barm
(noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
Source: WordNet® 3.1
yeast (countable and uncountable, plural yeasts)
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
The resulting infection, candidiasis.
(figuratively) A frothy foam.
yeast (third-person singular simple present yeasts, present participle yeasting, simple past and past participle yeasted)
To ferment.
(of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
(African American Vernacular English, slang) To exaggerate
• Yates, Yeats, as yet, teasy, yates, yeats
Source: Wiktionary
Yeast, n. Etym: [OE. ýeest, ýest, AS. gist; akin to D. gest, gist, G. gischt, gäscht, OHG. jesan, jerian, to ferment, G. gischen, gäschen, gähren, Gr. zei^n to boil, Skr. yas. sq. root111.]
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.
Definition: 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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
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