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noun 
  1. A type of single-celled fungus.
  2. An often humid, yellowish froth, made of these fungi, used in medicine, in baking and in brewing beer.
  3. A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
  4. (figuratively) A frothy foam on sea waves.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: (t, nl, schuim, n)
  • French: levure
    (trans-mid)
  • German: Hefe
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: levadura
  • Italian: schiuma di un'onda
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