brewer's yeast
1. yeast used in fermenting beer • Hypernyms: yeast, barm • Hyponyms: bottom fermenting yeast, top fermenting yeast 2. used as a leaven in baking and brewing • Syn: baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae • Hypernyms: yeast • Member Holonyms: Saccharomyces, genus Saccharomyces
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