ferment
noun
any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
unfermentable
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a word derived from
ferment.
Example Sentences
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Talose is unfermentable, even though the arrangement of its upper three groups is the same as in the galactose and the lower three the same as in mannose.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
C. Schmitt and A. Coblenzl have made a careful investigation of the unfermentable substances found in commercial starch sugars, and have succeeded in isolating a definite compound, to which they give the name gallisin.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various
