Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chemical ferment produced by several species of yeast-plants, which converts cane-sugar in solution into invert-sugar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) An enzyme which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
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- noun obsolete, biochemistry Any
enzyme that converts asugar to aninvert sugar ;saccharase
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These ferments may belong to either of the following well-recognised classes: proteolytic, diastatic, invertin, rennet.
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