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Noun: brewer's yeast
  1. Yeast used in fermenting beer
     
  2. Used as a leaven in baking and brewing
    - baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Derived forms: brewer's yeasts

Type of: barm, yeast

Part of: genus Saccharomyces, Saccharomyces

Encyclopedia: Brewer's yeast