Definitions for agars

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agars a·gar

Spelling: [ah-gahr, ag-er]

IPA: /ˈɑ gɑr, ˈæg ər/

Agars is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in agars (aagrs).

Definitions for agars

noun

1. Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
2. Biology. a culture medium having an agar base.
3. Hagar.

Origin of agars

First recorded in 1885-90, agar is from the Malay word agaragar seaweed from which a gelatin is rendered, or the gelatin itself

Examples for agars

Bring some more cakes, and tell Miss agar to come and pour out the tea.

Weigh out French maltose, 40 grammes, and dissolve in the agar.

On leaving my two friends I drove straight to agar's to tell her what had happened.

agar was to be introduced by Princess Mathilde, to whom she was then sitting as Minerva.

I coughed, and agar, who had taken my arm-chair, wanted to give it me back.

Pour plates from the agar tubes; label, and incubate at 37° C.

Turk, a whirlpool; but perhaps the name of an office from agar, a saddle.

This is true of variations in the amount of moisture on agar plates.

It is a mega-leap from the agar and test-tube finding to real patients and their delicate lungs.

We have also spoken of the servant agar, by whom Abraham had a son, and of how Abraham treated them both.