"fermenter" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fermenters [plural]
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  1. Any organism, such as a yeast, that causes fermentation.
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  2. A fermentor; a vessel in which fermentation takes place.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: biofermenter, heterofermenter, homofermenter, microfermenter, multifermenter, non-fermenter

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