Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
agar-agar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
agar-agar .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
agar
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Examples
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Authors differ much as to the materials of which it is composed: some suppose it to consist of sea-worms, of the mollusca kind; others, of a kind of cuttle-fish, or a glutinous sea-plast called agal-agal.
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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They are either white, or red, or black, and are formed chiefly of _agal-agal_ a marine cellular plant.
Mark Seaworth William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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