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BARM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

barm; yeast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("barm" is a kind of...):

leaven; leavening (a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barm"):

yeast cake (small cake of compressed moist yeast)

brewer's yeast (yeast used in fermenting beer)

mother (a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar)

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