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lactofermentation

lactofermentation noun: lactic acid fermentation, a process by which certain sugars are converted into lactic acid, used especially to produce certain pickled/fermented foods such as sauerkraut and narezushi.

Noun

lactofermentation (countable and uncountable, plural lactofermentations)

  1. Lactic acid fermentation, a process by which certain sugars are converted into lactic acid, used especially to produce certain pickled/fermented foods such as sauerkraut and narezushi.

Forms of lactofermentation

plurallactofermentations
alternative formlacto-fermentation

Origin of lactofermentation

From lacto- + fermentation.

Questions about lactofermentation

What does lactofermentation mean?
Lactofermentation means lactic acid fermentation, a process by which certain sugars are converted into lactic acid, used especially to produce certain pickled/fermented foods such as sauerkraut and narezushi.
What part of speech is lactofermentation?
Lactofermentation is a noun.
What is the plural of lactofermentation?
The plural of lactofermentation is lactofermentations.

Words near lactofermentation in the dictionary

  1. lactodensimeters
  2. lactoderm
  3. lactodifucotetraose
  4. lactofen
  5. lactoferment
  6. lactofermentation
  7. lactofermentations
  8. lactofermented
  9. lactofermenting
  10. lactoferments
  11. lactoferrampin

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