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What is the noun for yeast?

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yeast
  1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
  2. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
    1. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
    2. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
  3. (figuratively) A frothy foam.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “There are about 1,500 different types of yeast, but the most famous is probably Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is the yeast used to leaven bread and ferment wine and ales.”
      “But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the center of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.”
      “Our survey is not a panorama of prediction, however. It is a look at the fermentive yeast of change, the agents remaking world realities.”
yeastiness
  1. The state or condition of being yeasty.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The nose is really quite clean, crisp and citrussy, with a little hint of yeastiness and grass, but rather neutral overall.”
      “Delightfully easy drinking with delicate, strawberryish characters, subtle yeastiness and a smooth finish.”
      “Le Passe Colline 2004 Cotes du Ventoux gains extra complexity and yeastiness from being aged sur lie.”
yeasts
  1. plural of yeast
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Aromatic, smoky, malty notes wrap themselves around the delicate flavours of the hops and the brewing yeasts.”
      “Streptomyces rochei AK 39 was active against dermatophytes whereas yeasts and other molds were resistant.”
      “Candida species are polymorphic and can form colonies containing budding yeasts, pseudohyphae, and true hyphae.”
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