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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The branch of chemistry that deals with fermentation processes, as in brewing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. That department of technological chemistry which treats of the scientific principles of wine-making, brewing, and distilling, and the preparation of yeast and vinegar, in which processes fermentation plays the principal part.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The chemistry of fermentation with yeasts, especially the science involved in beer and wine making.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling)

Etymologies

  1. From zym- + -urgy. (Wiktionary)

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  • “It's a fermentation and zymurgy class in the bacteriology department, with prerequisites in microbiology, biochemistry, and organic chemistry.”

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  • “Gone are Molotov cocktail, women’s liberation, monkey wrench, Novocain and zymurgy a word for fermentation that hasn’t been used or abused in decades.”

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  • reesetee Clever! I can see winemakers and brewers getting their computer files all mixed up, though. ;-) Apr 10, 2008

  • frindley I was introduced to this wonderful word by a colleague in Cleveland. Alcohol, of course, is not the only thing that broods away – brewing, bubbling and generally fermenting. Ideas do that too. And so, like my colleague, I now have an email folder called Zymurgy and a computer file folder called Zymurgy. Sure beats "Miscellaneous". Better still, it always sits neatly at the bottom of any alphabetically sorted list! Apr 10, 2008

  • trivet There's a magazine for everything. Feb 22, 2008

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