torula

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

/ ˈtɔr yə lə, -ə lə, ˈtɔr- /

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

Words nearby torula

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

Also called torula yeast.

The sugar fungus is precisely the same as the yeast plant (the Torula cerevisi).
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II|Arnold Cooley
You can see with the microscope the Torula of fermenting must or beer.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2|John Tyndall
The next thing to do was to make out how this torula was related to the other plants.
Yeast|Thomas H. Huxley
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