Usually means: Fungi used in fermentation, baking.
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  1. yeast: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. yeast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yeast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yeast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yeast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Yeast: Wordnik
  7. yeast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. yeast: Wiktionary
  9. yeast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. yeast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. yeast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. yeast: Dictionary.com
  13. yeast: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. yeast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Yeast (baking), Yeast (disambiguation), Yeast (journal), Yeast (novel), Yeast (wine), Yeast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yeast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. yeast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. yeast: Rhymezone
  19. Yeast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. yeast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. yeast: Free Dictionary
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  1. yeast: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
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  1. Yeast (baking), yeast: Encyclopedia

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  1. yeast, yeast: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. yeast: Urban Dictionary

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  4. Yeast: Brew Monkey Glossary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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