yeasty

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Tempeh is a fermented soybean cake with a texture similar to soft tofu and a yeasty, nutty flavor.

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  1. adjective Of, similar to, or containing yeast: yeasty dough.
  2. adjective Causing or characterized by unrest or agitation; turbulent: the yeasty days before the new government was established.
  3. adjective Frothy; frivolous: a yeasty comedy.

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  • "No." The air in the room was thick with the yeasty, bakery smell of a starving human body—conventional medical wisdom held that consumptives should eat virtually nothing. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • Killing off the yeasty organic boil in our blood, while committing our bodies to this state of immaculate unliving called Animal Preservation. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 06 - June 2002
  • I remember the cellar we entered from a door in an outside room and the yeasty-damp smell of last summer's potato crop, spring-softened and gone to seed. —  EQMM, August 2005
  • Would it be warm and yeasty, from working so close to the ovens? —  EQMM,March-April2008
  • Somehow, it makes disparate flavors get along and play nicely together, like a yeasty nanny you don't want to tick off. —  Los Angeles Metblogs
 

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