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d carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiæ is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.

A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.

A salt of saccharonic acid.

A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.

Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.

Saccharine.

A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.

A salt of saccholactactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate. [Obs.] See Mucate.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic. [Obs.]

Saccholatic. [Obs.]

A salt of sacchulmic acid.

oiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid. [Written also sacculmic.]

An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it.

Bearing a sac.

Having the general form of a sac.

Same as Pellibranchiata.

Like a sac; sacciform.

Furnished with little sacs.

A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.