Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing fermentation.
- adjective Capable of causing or undergoing fermentation.
- adjective Relating to or of the nature of fermentation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing or having power to cause fermentation.
- Of the nature of, consisting in, or produced by fermentation.
- Also
fermentive .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, causing or undergoing
fermentation
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Examples
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Flour, when well boiled, though infinitely better than arrowroot, is still only a kind of fermentative paste, that counteracts its own good by after-acidity and flatulence.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Flour, when well boiled, though infinitely better than arrowroot, is still only a kind of fermentative paste, that counteracts its own good by after-acidity and flatulence.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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It is much easier to conceive from this doctrine of associated or sympathetic motions of distant parts of the system, how it happens, that the variolous infection can be received but once, as before explained; than by supposing, that a change is effected in the mass of blood by any kind of fermentative process.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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They have a rumen hence, ruminant, the first in a series of multiple stomachs that acts as a fermentative vat.
The Vegetarian Myth | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Essences can be divided according to these activities: antispasmodic or spasmolytic, stimulatory, hormonal and anti-fermentative.
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Many people have the personal experience of the anti-putrefactive and anti-fermentative uses of certain essential oil-producing plants such as funnel, coriander and anise, which are especially effective remedies against such complaints as gastritis and colitis.
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You can call me a non-fermentative rod, meaning I don't ferment glucose.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Emma Lurie 2006
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As for what I am, I'm a non-fermentative Gram negative rod, like my buddy Pseudomonas.
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Emma Lurie 2006
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You can call me a non-fermentative rod, meaning I don't ferment glucose.
Archive 2006-10-01 Emma Lurie 2006
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As for what I am, I'm a non-fermentative Gram negative rod, like my buddy Pseudomonas.
Archive 2006-10-01 Emma Lurie 2006
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