单词 | kefir |
释义 | kefirn. a. An effervescent liquor resembling koumiss, prepared from milk which has been fermented; employed as a medicine or food for invalids. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > fermented milk kefir1884 acidophilus milk1914 1884 Nature 3 July 216/2 Kephir has only been generally known even in Russia for about two years. 1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1072 Koumiss and kefyr and examples of sour fermented milk containing an excess of carbonic acid gas. b. kefir ferment, grains, or seeds, a composite substance used by the Caucasians to ferment milk. Π 1887 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1898 Blackman in Working Men's College Jrnl. V. 60 The inhabitants of the Caucasus have kephir grains. To produce kephir, about 6 parts of milk is mixed with 1 part of the grains... Kephir grains consist of 2 sorts of bacteria and a yeast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1884 |
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