Yogurt
A common dish made of milk curdled and fermented with a culture of Lactobacillus (the milk bacillus). The word was acquired in the 1620s from Turkey. It can be spelled myriad ways including yogurt, yoghurt, yaghourt, yooghurt, yughard, and yaourt. The most popular spellings in the Anglo-Saxon world are yogurt and yoghurt while in France one eats yaourt.
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yo·gurt also
yo·ghurt 'yō-gərt n a fermented slightly acid often flavored semisolid food made of milk and milk solids to which cultures of bacteria of the genus
Lactobacillus (
L. bulgarius) and
Streptococcus (
S. thermophilus) have been added
Medical dictionary.
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