Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun brewer's_yeast

2 senses of brewer's yeast

Sense 1
brewer's yeast -- (yeast used in fermenting beer)
       => yeast, barm -- (a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey)

Sense 2
baker's yeast, brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- (used as a leaven in baking and brewing)
       => yeast -- (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)