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fermenter

noun

Etymology

From ferment + -er.

  1. derived from fermentō
  2. derived from ferment
  3. inherited from ferment
  4. formed as fermenter — “ferment + -er”

Definitions

  1. Any organism, such as a yeast, that causes fermentation.

  2. A fermentor

    A fermentor; a vessel in which fermentation takes place.

    • Where this has proved impossible, we've outsourced the process using barrels, jars, comost heaps and industrial fermenters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fermenter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA