BREWER'S YEAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brewer's yeast mean? 

• BREWER'S YEAST (noun)
  The noun BREWER'S YEAST has 2 senses:

1. yeast used in fermenting beer

2. used as a leaven in baking and brewing

  Familiarity information: BREWER'S YEAST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREWER'S YEAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yeast used in fermenting beer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("brewer's yeast" is a kind of...):

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

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

bottom fermenting yeast (brewer's yeast used in bottom fermentation of lager)

top fermenting yeast (brewer's yeast used in top fermentation of ale)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used as a leaven in baking and brewing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

baker's yeast; brewer's yeast; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Hypernyms ("brewer's yeast" is a kind of...):

yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)

Holonyms ("brewer's yeast" is a member of...):

genus Saccharomyces; Saccharomyces (single-celled yeasts that reproduce asexually by budding; used to ferment carbohydrates)