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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol;
[syn: zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Zymolysis \Zy*mol"y*sis\, n. [NL. See Zyme, and Lysis.] (Physiol. Chem.) The action of enzymes, such as digestion or fermentation; also, the changes produced by such action. -- Zy`mo*lyt"ic, a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

zymolysis n 1: a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol [syn: zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment]