NUTRIENT AGAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nutrient agar mean? 

• NUTRIENT AGAR (noun)
  The noun NUTRIENT AGAR has 1 sense:

1. any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent

  Familiarity information: NUTRIENT AGAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUTRIENT AGAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

agar; nutrient agar

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)

 Context examples 

This species is oxidase and catalase positive, urease and alkaline phosphatase negative, nonmotile, relatively halointolerant, susceptible to penicillin, grows on blood agar or nutrient agar and does not reduce nitrate.

(Moraxella lincolnii, NCI Thesaurus)