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yeast
WIKTIONARY
yeast
Noun
  • An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
  • A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
    • A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
    • Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
  • A frothy foam. figuratively
Verb
  • To ferment.
  • To rise. of something prepared with a yeasted dough
  • To exaggerate African American Vernacular, slang