Definitions for torulas

torulas tor·u·la

Spelling: [tawr-yuh-luh, -uh-luh
IPA: /ˈtɔr yə lə, -ə lə, ˈtɔr-/

Torulas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in torulas (alorstu).

Definitions for torulas

noun

  1. a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.

Origin of torulas

New Latin Torula (1796) a fungus genus, equivalent to Latin tor(us) torus + -ula -ule

Examples for torulas

It is supposed by some that Saccharomyces is a very degraded Ascomycete, in which the torula condition has become fixed.

The yeast, to which he gave the name Saccharomyces (torula) keffir, forms small oval or roundish cells 2-3 µ wide and 3-5 µ long.

Of greater importance is the recognition by the microscope of the spores of the yeast-fungus (torula cerevisi).

torula, in fact, converts the grape juice into alcohol, and Mycoderma aceti converts the alcohol into vinegar.

The next thing to do was to make out how this torula was related to the other plants.

The sugar fungus is precisely the same as the yeast plant (the torula cerevisi).

Of course the first obvious suggestion is, that the torula has been generated within the fluid.

They exactly resemble in everything except the size, the globules of the yeast plant, the torula Cerevesi.

You can see with the microscope the torula of fermenting must or beer.

I have found the torula in a great variety of syrups which have spontaneously undergone fermentation.

Word Value for torulas
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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