Usually means: Microorganisms converting sugars into alcohol.
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  1. ferments: Merriam-Webster
  2. ferments: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ferments: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ferments, ferments: Wordnik
  5. ferments: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ferments: Wiktionary
  7. ferments: Dictionary.com
  8. ferments: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ferments: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. ferments: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ferments: Legal dictionary

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  1. ferments: Encyclopedia

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  1. ferments: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. ferments: Medical dictionary

(Note: See ferment as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ferment)

verb:  To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
verb:  To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
noun:  Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
noun:  A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
noun:  A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
noun:  A catalyst.
▸ Also see ferment


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