Definitions for guars

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guars guar

Spelling: [gwahr]

IPA: /gwɑr/

Guars is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in guars (agrsu).

Definitions for guars

noun

1. a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.

Origin of guars

First recorded in 1880-85, guar is from the Hindi word guār

Examples for guars

But, as the guar does not quite satisfy the Kulba, there is the great biennial feast to the dead.

If a man is hanged, a string is suspended in the house on the occasion of the guar, so that the spirit may descend along it.

I once came across some hundreds of Saoras performing the guar Karja.

Every one of the stones has been put up at one of these guar feasts.

The great feature of the guar is the erection of a stone in memory of the deceased.

The second feast to the dead, also sacrificial, is called the guar.

The guar is supposed to give the Kulba considerable satisfaction, and it does not injure people as it did before.