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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Lactic acid fermentation, a process by which certain sugars are converted into lactic acid, used especially to produce certain pickled/fermented foods such as sauerkraut and narezushi. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From lacto- + fermentation.

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