What does "brewer's yeast" mean?

Any live yeast used in brewing or yeast obtained as a by-product of brewing, dried and killed, and used as nutritional yeast.

What is a synonym for "brewer's yeast"?

Common synonyms include: baker's yeast, most unicellular yeasts, saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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Noun

1
Any live yeast used in brewing or yeast obtained as a by-product of brewing, dried and killed, and used as nutritional yeast.
2
used as a leaven in baking and brewing wordnet
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yeast used in fermenting beer wordnet