| 单词 |
fermentative |
| 释义 |
fermentative, a.|fəˈmɛntətɪv|
[f. L. fermentāt- ppl. stem of fermentāre + -ive. Cf. Fr. fermentatif.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of fermentation; developed by fermentation.
1665Hooke Microgr. 122 Vegetation, which is set a moving by the putrifactive and fermentative heat. 1693Blancard Phys. Dict. 205/2 Some filthy and fermentative Matter. 1757A. Cooper Distiller i. ii. (1760) 10 The succeeding Separation or fermentative Motion, is a very different Thing. 1850Daubeny Atom. Th. x. (ed. 2) 350 Watching it during the continuance of the fermentative process. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 5) 20 The organic matter may..commence to undergo fermentative changes.
2. Tending to cause or undergo fermentation.
1661J. Childrey Brit. Bacon. 43, I doubt whether either of them hath any thing of a fermentative power in them. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. i. §31 (1682) 7 Beer, or any other Fermentative Liquor. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 46 The fermentative Disposition of the fresh Chyle. 1876Foster Phys. ii. i. 219 The fermentative activity of yeast.
Hence ferˈmentatively adv., and ferˈmentativeness.
1684Tyson Hist. R. Soc. iv. 172 (T.) The white of the egg he concluded, from its fermentativeness, to be impregnated with air. 1890Webster, Fermentatively. |
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