What does baker's yeast mean?

baker's yeast means "used as a leaven in baking and brewing".

What is another word for baker's yeast?

Close synonyms include brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baker's yeast a common word?

baker's yeast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

baker's yeast — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
used as a leaven in baking and brewing
Synonymsbrewer's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Broaderyeast
Part ofSaccharomyces

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What does baker's yeast mean?: baker's yeast means "used as a leaven in baking and brewing".
What is another word for baker's yeast?

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