Definitions for yeast



Overview of noun yeast

The noun yeast has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. yeast, barm

(a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey)

2. yeast

(any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)

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