Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - yeast
Yeast
yeast
n. 1 a greyish-yellow fungous substance obtained esp. from fermenting malt liquors and used as a fermenting agent, to raise bread, etc. 2 any of various unicellular fungi in which vegetative reproduction takes place by budding or fission. Derivatives yeastless adj. yeastlike adj. Etymology: OE gist, giest (unrecorded): cf. MDu. ghist, MHG jist, ON j{ouml}str
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English yest, from Old English gist; akin to Old High German jesen, gesen to ferment, Greek zein to boil Date: before 12th century 1. a yellowish surface froth or sediment that occurs especially in saccharine liquids (as fruit juices) in which it promotes alcoholic fermentation, consists largely of cells of a fungus (as the saccharomyces, Saccharomyces cerevisiae), and is used especially in the making of alcoholic liquors and as a leaven in baking, a commercial product containing ~ fungi in a moist or dry medium, c. a unicellular fungus that is present and functionally active in ~, usually has little or no mycelium, and reproduces by budding, any of various similar fungi, the foam or spume of waves, something that causes ferment or activity , II. intransitive verb Date: 1819 ferment, froth ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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