Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of fermented milk in use among the inhabitants of the northern Caucasus, and corresponding as an article of diet and medicine to kumiss in the southeastern steppes of Russia.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
kefir .
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Examples
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Yeasts: alcoholic ferments in milk, 73; fruity flavor in cheese, 186; gassy due to yeasts, 186; in bitter cheese, 189; in canned butter, 159; kephir, 72.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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From time immemorial human beings have absorbed quantities of lactic microbes by consuming in the uncooked condition substances such as soured milk, kephir, sauerkraut, or salted cucumbers, which have undergone lactic fermentation.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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In the Caucasus I had kephir, and I used to carry kephir grains, and in America I, at least, could have kumiss or Ilya Ilich's lait caille.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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In addition to such cases as the kephir and ginger-beer plants (figs. 19,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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