guar
- n drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material
- His cooking shelves look like a pharmacy, filled with bottles of powder: guar gum, calcium lactate, sodium alginate.
- Last week the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Georgia house violated Bond's First Amendment guar antee of freedom of speech by refusing to grant him his seat.
- FDA approves the continued use of such lump-preventing stabilizers as gelatin, locust-bean gum, sodium alginate, guar-seed gum and extract of Irish peat moss.