YEAST

Pronunciation (US):

• YEAST (noun)
  The noun YEAST has 2 senses:

1. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
2. any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

  Familiarity information: YEAST used as a noun is rare.

• YEAST (noun)

Meaning:

A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

barm; yeast

Hypernyms ("yeast" is a kind of...):

leaven; leavening (a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yeast"):

yeast cake (small cake of compressed moist yeast)

brewer's yeast (yeast used in fermenting beer)

mother (a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar)

Meaning:

Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yeast" is a kind of...):

fungus (a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yeast"):

baker's yeast; brewer's yeast; Saccharomyces cerevisiae (used as a leaven in baking and brewing)

Saccharomyces ellipsoides; wine-maker's yeast (used in making wine)

Holonyms ("yeast" is a member of...):

Endomycetales; order Endomycetales (fungi having a zygote or a single cell developing directly into an ascus)