Agar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A gelatinous material derived from certain marine algae. It is used as a base for bacterial culture media and as a stabilizer and thickener in many food products.
  • n. A culture medium containing this material.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A gelatinous material obtained from the marine algae, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
  • n. An agarose, the principle constituent of the commercial gel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. common shortened form of agar-agar{2}.
  • n. any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent; -- used especially with a modifying prefix, . The term is applied both to the dehydrated medium powder containing agar and to the gelatinous medium prepared from it.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as acker, eager.
  • n. The aloes-wood or calambac, Aquilaria Agallocha.
  • n. Same as agar-agar.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent
  • n. a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods
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    stabiliser    E406    agar-agar    agal-agal    gelling agent   
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    Hagar    gager    jager    rager    sager    vaguer   
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