agar
ay ger
- 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
- It may be one of the more unlikely food crazes of recent times, but agar-agar (the flavorless, seaweed-based thickener used in soups and jellies) is hip at least in Japan .
- The agar was laced with silver nitrate and potassium chromate.
- Agar-agar is a gelatinous protein, essential in hospital laboratories for the culture and identification of bacteria and the testing of serums and antitoxins.