torula

[ tawr-yuh-luh, -uh-luh, tawr- ]

noun

1. a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of torula¹

< New Latin Torula (1796) a fungus genus, equivalent to Latin tor ( us ) torus + -ula -ule

Example Sentences

Torula, tor′ū-la, n. a small torus: the yeast-plant.—adjs.

From Project Gutenberg

From hints afforded by the work of Prof. Mitchell, and several microscopic observations of my own, I was induced to publish an article in 'The Florist,' of Philadelphia, in the year 1855, in which I imputed the origin of the disease to the Torula or some analagous species of parasitic fungi.

From Project Gutenberg

This is known as the Torula condition.

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It is supposed by some that Saccharomyces is a very degraded Ascomycete, in which the Torula condition has become fixed.

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Chemist Thaysen at most expected to serve his yeast in concentrated doses to supplement a poor diet; despite its pleasant flavor, he did not conceive of Torula utilis as a candidate to upset the world's food economy.

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