Usually means: Single-celled fungi, fermentation, baking agents.
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  1. yeasts: Merriam-Webster
  2. yeasts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. yeasts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Yeasts, yeasts: Wordnik
  5. yeasts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. yeasts: Wiktionary
  7. yeasts: Dictionary.com
  8. Yeasts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. yeasts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. yeasts: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. yeasts: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. yeasts: Medical dictionary

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  2. yeasts: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Yeast)

noun:  An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
noun:  A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
noun:  A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
noun:  baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
noun:  A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
noun:  brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
noun:  Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
noun:  The resulting infection, candidiasis.
noun:  (figuratively) A frothy foam.
verb:  To ferment.
verb:  (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
verb:  (African-American Vernacular, slang) To exaggerate.
noun:  A surname.
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