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fermentable, a.|fəˈmɛntəb(ə)l|
[f. ferment v. + -able.]
1. Capable of being fermented.
1731–7Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Wine, Fermentable Bodies. 1795Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 271 This fermentable sap portends the dry-rot. 1850Daubeny Atom. Th. x. (ed. 2) 347 The cells which contain the saccharine and other fermentable matters. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 96 Organic fermentable liquids change very slowly.
fig.1732Hist. Litteraria IV. 22 He proceeds to range fermentable Subjects into Classes. 1840Mill Ess. (1859) II. 408 The..fermentable elements of French society.
2. Capable of causing fermentation. rare.
1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 133 The fermented liquor must be separated as much as possible from the yeast or fermentable matter.
Hence ˌfermentaˈbility, the quality of being fermentable.
1788Projects in Ann. Reg. 85 Newman..was unwilling to admit of the fermentability of milk. 1912A. C. Chapman Brewing iv. 55 A wort having just the degree of fermentability required. |