active dry yeast

noun

Powdered dehydrated yeast organisms that are alive but dormant because of the lack of moisture, used to leaven bread.

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Meanings

nounactive dry yeast (countable and uncountable, plural active dry yeasts)

plural active dry yeasts

  1. countableuncountablePowdered dehydrated yeast organisms that are alive but dormant because of the lack of moisture, used to leaven bread.
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