Synonyms for yeast
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1. yeast, barmnoun

   a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

   Synonyms:
   barm

2. yeastnoun

   any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

   Synonyms:
   barm

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1. • Fungus

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1. yeastnoun

   Synonyms:
   barm, ferment, EMPTYINGS

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1. yeastnoun

   Synonyms:
   harm, leaven, ferment

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1. List of paraphrases for "yeast":

   yeasts, leaven

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1. Cyril Brun:

   The yeast converts the sugar into alcohol, and because of the pressure, carbon dioxide is created, providing a shower of bubbles.

2. Elizabeth Sattely:

   Producing plant-derived drugs in easy-to-grow plants or baker's yeast in many cases will be a much more efficient way to make these drugs, this is currently being done for artemisinin (a malaria drug derived from the sweet wormwood plant), and will likely be the way we make morphine (derived from poppies) in the future.

3. George Goehl:

   You are an organizer. You bring not bread, but yeast. You are here to agitate and inspire more people to ask hard questions, to uncover hidden truths, to realize their power, and to do all of this with lots of other people. What an amazing thing.

4. Julianna Schantz-Dunn:

   You may feel some itching or painful urination, but the symptoms may not be as severe as you’d think, i’ve seen people try to treat herpes with a topical yeast medication—and that doesn’t do much.

5. Robin Foroutan:

   We all have bacteria, yeasts and other types of microbes living in our digestive tracts and many strains of these actually provide a benefit — that's why fermented foods and probiotics are so healthy, but excessive sugar intake can throw off the balance leading to an overgrowth of normally occurring yeast and pathogenic bacteria. This can have a negative effect on our energy, skin, immune function, mood and many other consequences.