yeast

incontable

A noun referring to a type of single-celled fungus used in baking and brewing to cause fermentation, or the commercial product containing these cells.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa un tipo de hongo unicelular utilizado en panadería y cervecería para provocar la fermentación, o el producto comercial que contiene estas células.

1. Leavening agent B1 formal culinary

   A commercial product containing live yeast cells, used to make dough rise in baking bread and to ferment beer or whiskey.

   • She added yeast to the flour mixture to make the bread rise.
   • Brewers use yeast to convert sugars into alcohol.
   • The recipe calls for one packet of active dry yeast.

   🇪🇸Levadura (agente leudante)

   Sinónimos: barmfermentleaven

2. Single-celled fungus B2 formal scientific

   Any of various microscopic fungi that reproduce by budding or division, and are essential in baking and fermentation.

   • Yeast is a type of fungus that grows on fruits and grains.
   • Under a microscope, you can see yeast cells budding.
   • Different strains of yeast are used for different fermentation processes.

   🇪🇸levadura

• yeasts plural form
• yeasts' possessive plural form
• yeast's possessive singular form