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Yeast

The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.

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Fungus 76% connected

Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools,…

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Leaven 76% connected

Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with…

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Leavening 76% connected

of Leaven

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Mother 76% connected

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

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Barm 92% connected

Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.

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Ascomycete noun · 86% connection

any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus

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Ascomycetous fungus noun · 86% connection

any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus

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Aspergillus fumigatus noun · 86% connection

a mold causing aspergillosis in birds and man

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Basidiomycete noun · 86% connection

any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota

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Basidiomycetous fungi noun · 86% connection

any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota

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Bird's-nest fungus noun · 86% connection

any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores

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Black root rot fungus noun · 86% connection

fungus causing black root rot in apples

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Blastomycete noun · 86% connection

any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals

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Bottom rot fungus noun · 86% connection

fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce

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Brown root rot fungus noun · 86% connection

fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families

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Candida noun · 86% connection

any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida

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Carrion fungus noun · 86% connection

any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry th…

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Ceratostomella ulmi noun · 86% connection

fungus causing Dutch elm disease

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Cercospora kopkei noun · 86% connection

fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia)

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Chinese black mushroom noun · 86% connection

edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe

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Claviceps purpurea noun · 86% connection

a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant;…

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Clubroot fungus noun · 86% connection

a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants

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Coffee fungus noun · 86% connection

fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants

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Atmospheric condition noun · 78% connection

the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…

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Bacterium noun · 78% connection

A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…

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Beery adjective · 78% connection

Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.

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Betroth verb · 78% connection

To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

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Bottom adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

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Bottomed adjective · 78% connection

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

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Brew verb · 78% connection

To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.

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Brewery noun · 78% connection

a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation

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Conditions noun · 78% connection

the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…

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Despumate v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

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Double noun · 78% connection

Double beer; strong beer.

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