agar

Other forms of agar

plural

agars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agar

What does agar mean?

agar means "any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in agar?

agar has 2 syllables: a-gar. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˈeɪɡɚ/.

What is another word for agar?

Close synonyms include nutrient agar, agar-agar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agar a common word?

agar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.