yeast

FREQ #19132

n. 酵母 [化] 酵母

发音

UK /jiːst/
AU /iːst/
US /jist/

词形变化

yeasts 复数 yeasts yeasted yeasting yeasts 三单 yeasting 现在分词 yeasted 过去式 yeasted 过去分词

别名

yest

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

    酵母

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  2. 2.

    A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    酵母

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  3. 3.

    A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

    baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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  4. 4.

    A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

    baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.

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    依仕

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  5. 5.

    A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

    brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.

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  6. 6.

    A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.

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  7. 7.

    A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.

    The resulting infection, candidiasis.

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  8. 8.

    A frothy foam.

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v.
  1. 1.

    To rise.

  2. 2.

    To ferment.

  3. 3.

    To exaggerate.

    俚语 非裔美国英语

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

barm

上位词 3

fungus leaven leavening

下位词 3

mother brewer's yeast yeast cake

相关短语

yeast infection = thrush (3) yeast extract [医] 酵母浸出物, 酵母膏 yeast infections yeast extracts yeast bread yeast breads yeast cake 发面饼, 鲜酵母块 yeast cakes red yeast rice autolyzed yeast extract autolyzed yeast extracts nutritional yeast 营养酵母 brewer's yeast [医] 啤酒酵母 active dry yeast [化] 活性干酵母 true yeast [医] 真酵母

词源

From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).

来源：wiktionary