Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a small torus.
- noun A genus of mucedinous fungi, having decumbent sterile hyphæ and conidia single or in a series. About 100 species are known.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chain of special bacteria.
- noun A genus of budding fungi. Same as
saccharomyces . Also used adjectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of a group of
fungi , Candida utilis, related to theyeasts , sometimes used in processed food
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Examples
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I won't weary you with the whole course of investigation, but I may sum up its results, and they are these -- that the torula is a particular kind of a fungus, a particular state rather, of a fungus or mould.
Yeast Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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I won't weary you with the whole course of investigation, but I may sum up its results, and they are these -- that the torula is a particular kind of a fungus, a particular state rather, of a fungus or mould.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Feeding will be basically with grass, and molasses will be the supplement, with molasses products such as torula, along with some animal protein.
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I won’t weary you with the whole course of investigation, but I may sum up its results, and they are these — that the torula is a particular kind of a fungus, a particular state rather, of a fungus or mould.
Essays 2007
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The walls are blackened with torula, the fungus that feeds on the escaping vapors; known as "the angels' share."
A Slow Path to Perfection Lennox Morrison 2011
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And he judged thus: if the fluid parts are those which excite fermentation, then, inasmuch as these are stopped, the sugar will not ferment; and the sugar did not ferment, showing quite clearly, that an immediate contact with the solid, living torula was absolutely necessary to excite this process of splitting up of the sugar.
Essays 2007
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It has been shown that if you take any measures by which other plants of like kind to the torula would be killed, and by which the yeast plant is killed, then the yeast loses its efficiency.
Essays 2007
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There are many moulds which under certain conditions give rise to this torula condition, to a substance which is not distinguishable from yeast, and which has the same properties as yeast — that is to say, which is able to decompose sugar in the curious way that we shall consider by-and-by.
Essays 2007
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And there is no doubt whatever that fermentation is excited only by the presence of some torula or other, and that that torula proceeds in our present experience, from pre-existing torulae.
Essays 2007
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Of course the first obvious suggestion is, that the torula has been generated within the fluid.
Essays 2007
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