: a gelatinous colloidal extract of a red alga (as of the genera Gelidium, Gracilaria, and Eucheuma) used especially in culture media or as a gelling and stabilizing agent in foods
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: a culture medium containing agar
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebEnlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022 Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022 Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022 Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2022 Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 July 2022 The 20-by-10-centimeter device contained six cameras to observe the growth of the chickpeas from all angles as well as a nutritional gel instead of soil, which was made up mostly of water and some agar, a jellylike material. Shoshanna Solomon, Fortune, 13 June 2022 American anti-intellectualism provides a rich cultural agar for growing these theories. Elizabeth Williamson, Wired, 11 Mar. 2022 Glass explained that the square was a plate of agar on which colonies of the minimal cell had been grown. James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
short for Malay agar-agar, name for the red alga from which it is extracted