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English noun: yeast | |||
| 1. | yeast (substance) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | ||
| Synonyms | barm | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | leaven, leavening | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | brewer's yeast, mother, yeast cake | ||
| 2. | yeast (plant) any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fungus | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | baker's yeast, brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces ellipsoides, wine-maker's yeast | ||
| Member meronym | Endomycetales, order Endomycetales | ||
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