ZYMURGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zymurgy mean? 

• ZYMURGY (noun)
  The noun ZYMURGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling)

  Familiarity information: ZYMURGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZYMURGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

zymology; zymurgy

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

biochemistry (the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry)