fermenter
nounEtymology From ferment + -er.
1
Any organism, such as a yeast, that causes fermentation.
2
A fermentor; a vessel in which fermentation takes place.
- Where this has proved impossible, we've outsourced the process using barrels, jars, comost heaps and industrial fermenters.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 205:
- Derived terms
- biofermenter, heterofermenter, homofermenter, microfermenter, multifermenter, non-fermenter