torula

[ tawr-yuh-luh, -uh-luh, tawr- ]

/ ˈtɔr yə lə, -ə lə, ˈtɔr- /

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noun

a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.

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Also called torula yeast .

Origin of torula

<New Latin Torula (1796) a fungus genus, equivalent to Latin tor(us) torus + -ula-ule

I have found the Torula in a great variety of syrups which have spontaneously undergone fermentation.
Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease|John Grove
They exactly resemble in everything except the size, the globules of the yeast plant, the Torula Cerevesi.
Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease|John Grove
The yeast, to which he gave the name Saccharomyces (Torula) keffir, forms small oval or roundish cells 2-3 µ wide and 3-5 µ long.
The Bacillus of Long Life|Loudon Douglas
He would have seen the true torula overpowered by foreign intruders.
Louis Pasteur|Ren Vallery-Radot

Torula, in fact, converts the grape juice into alcohol, and Mycoderma aceti converts the alcohol into vinegar.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2|John Tyndall