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fermentable

fermentable adjective: able to ferment or be fermented.

Adjective

fermentable (comparative more fermentable, superlative most fermentable)

  1. Able to ferment or be fermented.
    • “You need to convert the starches in the corn into fermentable sugars,” the always entertaining Mr. Calagione said by phone from his headquarters in Rehoboth Beach.2009 September 9, Joyce Wadler, “Chew It Up, Spit It Out, Then Brew. Cheers!”, in New York Times

Noun

fermentable (plural fermentables)

  1. Any substance that can be fermented.
    • Purchase other fermentables (more fermentables mean more alcohol) like dry malt extract, rice syrup, brewers' sugar, liquid malt extract, Belgian candi sugar, or demera sugar or any combination of the above.2011, Abigail R. Gehring, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living

Forms of fermentable

Adjective
comparativemore fermentable
superlativemost fermentable
Noun
pluralfermentables

Origin of fermentable

From ferment + -able.

Words formed from fermentable

Questions about fermentable

What does fermentable mean?
Fermentable means able to ferment or be fermented.
What part of speech is fermentable?
Fermentable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near fermentable in the dictionary

  1. fermate
  2. Fermatian
  3. ferment
  4. fermentabilities
  5. fermentability
  6. fermentable
  7. fermentables
  8. fermental
  9. fermentarian
  10. fermentarians
  11. fermentate

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