Saturday, November 08, 2025

English for trippers: From yeast to breast

Yeast reproduces by budding. Buds are the beginning of the development of a breast, while nipples are the mature structure.

A woman can get a yeast infection on her breasts, most commonly in the skin folds underneath them or on the nipples.

Word similarity and biology/medicine. The etymology of the word yeast is very different.

P.S. I blogged here yesterday about beer yeast.

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