Yest vs. Yeast — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Yest and Yeast
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Yest
Obsolete spelling of yeast
Yeast
Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and at least 1,500 species are currently recognized.
Yest
See Yeast.
Yeast
A microscopic fungus consisting of single oval cells that reproduce by budding, and capable of converting sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Yeast
Any of various unicellular fungi of the genus Saccharomyces, especially S. cerevisiae, reproducing asexually by budding or sexually through the production of ascospores and capable of fermenting carbohydrates.
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Yeast
Any of numerous fungi that exhibit a one-celled growth form and reproduce by budding, including certain candidas that can cause infections in humans.
Yeast
Froth consisting of yeast cells together with the carbon dioxide they produce in the process of fermentation, present in or added to fruit juices and other substances in the production of alcoholic beverages.
Yeast
A powdered or compressed commercial preparation of yeast cells, used chiefly as a leavening agent or as a dietary supplement.
Yeast
An agent of ferment or activity
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Yeast
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
Yeast
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
Yeast
A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
Yeast
Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
Yeast
(figuratively) A frothy foam.
Yeast
To ferment.
Yeast
(of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
Yeast
To exaggerate.
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.
Yeast
Spume, or foam, of water.
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Yeast
A form of fungus which grows as individual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth.
Yeast
A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
Yeast
Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
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