lactofermentation
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lactofermentation (countable and uncountable, plural lactofermentations)
- Lactic acid fermentation, a process by which certain sugars are converted into lactic acid, used especially to produce certain pickled/fermented foods such as sauerkraut and narezushi.
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lactofermentation f (plural lactofermentations)
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- “lactofermentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.