torula

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

noun

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

Origin of torula

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

Also called torula yeast.

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Historical Examples of torula

The next thing to do was to make out how this torula was related to the other plants.
Yeast
Thomas H. Huxley
You can see with the microscope the Torula of fermenting must or beer.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2
John Tyndall
Of course the first obvious suggestion is, that the torula has been generated within the fluid.
Yeast
Thomas H. Huxley
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