zymosis

1. 1.

   a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol

   Synonymszymolysisfermentationfermentingferment

   Broaderchemical process

   Narrowerbottom fermentationtop fermentationvinification
2. 2.

   (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus)

   Broaderinfection

   Narrowerfungal infection

   medicine

Other forms of zymosis

plural

zymosises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about zymosis

What does zymosis mean?

zymosis means "a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in zymosis?

zymosis has 3 syllables: zy-mo-sis. The stress falls on "zy".

What is another word for zymosis?

Close synonyms include zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment. 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 zymosis a common word?

zymosis 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.