baker's yeast
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪkərz jiːst/
- Specialized
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- Baker's yeast is essential for making baker's yeast rise properly.
Examples
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Recombinant vaccine is produced by inserting a plasmid containing the gene for HBsAg into common baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae).
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It is not even that; it is just protein made in baker's yeast.
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Even a simple organism like baker's yeast has a half-dozen different forms of this protein.
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To bake a fluffy cake, you need to add baker's yeast to the mixture.
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Many recipes for pizza dough call for baker's yeast as a leavening agent.
Synonyms
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1.1
A very small living thing used in baking and brewing to make dough rise or ferment drinks
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3.0
A small solid block that you use in baking to make bread dough rise
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5.1
A substance that makes dough rise, like yeast
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4.6
A yeast used to turn sugar into gas and alcohol for bread and beer
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A soft block of living yeast used to make bread rise
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3.4
A type of yeast used to make beer and sometimes bread
A yeast made of one cell that turns sugar into gas and alcohol in bread and beer
A foamy liquid left after brewing beer that helps bread rise
Surface Forms
Morphology
baker's + yeast
The meaning 'a type of yeast used in baking' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'baker's' (possessive of baker) signals association with baking and 'yeast' denotes the fermenting fungus. This possessive/type construction is a transparent, cross-linguistically common way to mark product or purpose, so a B1 learner who knows the words would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Baker's yeast comes from the simple picture of the yeast bakers use to make dough 'rise'. The word baker's shows it is for baking, and yeast are tiny living cells that make dough puff up by making bubbles, so the name means the yeast that helps bread 'rise'.