Word Meanings - YEASTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

FROTHY
1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy. 2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon. 3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.
YEAST
A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions
YEASTINESS
The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.
YEAST-BITTEN
A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reëntered the body of the beer.
YEASTY
Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.
FOAMY
Covered with foam; frothy; spumy. Behold how high the foamy billows ride! Dryden.
SPUMOUS; SPUMY
Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy. The spumous and florid state of the blood. Arbuthnot. The spumy waves proclaim the watery war. Dryden.
COMPRESSED YEAST
A cake yeast made by filtering the cells from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour.