NUTRIENT AGAR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent

Synonyms:

agar; nutrient agar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("nutrient agar" is a kind of...):

culture medium; medium ((bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms)

Meronyms (substance of "nutrient agar"):

agar; agar-agar (a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nutrient agar"):

blood agar (a culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient)