GUAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guar mean? 

• GUAR (noun)
  The noun GUAR has 1 sense:

1. drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material

  Familiarity information: GUAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cluster bean; Cyamopsis psoraloides; Cyamopsis tetragonolobus; guar

Hypernyms ("guar" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Holonyms ("guar" is a member of...):

Cyamopsis; genus Cyamopsis (small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia)

 Context examples 

Standard stabilizers such as sodium alginate, guar gum, iota carrageenan, xanthan gum and carboxymethyl cellulose are commonplace.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)