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What does yeast mean?

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Noun
  1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
  2. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
    1. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
    2. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
  3. (figuratively) A frothy foam.
Verb
  1. To ferment.
  2. (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
  3. (African American Vernacular, slang) To exaggerate
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