Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is skilled in zymology. Also
zumologist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is skilled in zymology, or in the fermentation of liquors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zymurgy One who is skilled in
zymology , or in the fermentation of liquors.
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Examples
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A zymologist is a man who helps keep a few billion people alive.
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In Isaac Asimov's science-fiction novel The Caves of Steel, one of the conspirators, a member of an underground movement preaching a "return-to-the-soil" philosophy, is a zymologist.
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The zymologist then brags about some of the recent accomplishments of his laboratory such as out of season strawberries, fully artificial, made from a special high-sugar yeast culture with "thrue-bred" colour and just a dash of flavour additive; he also proudly refers to a former scrub strain of yeast whose fat content has been pushed up from 15% to 87% and which is now used as the sole greasing agent for expressways.
epeolatrist commented on the word zymologist
(n) one who is skilled in the fermentation of liquors
May 8, 2009