Agar Agar ( or ), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from " ogonori" and " tengusa". As found in nature, agar is a mixture of two components, t ...

is a gelatinous substance with culinary and microbiological uses. Agar may also refer to :

Places

Asia

* Agar, Madhya Pradesh, a city and municipality in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, former capital of the Parmar Rajput kingdom ** Agar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) the Madhya Pradesh constituency centered around the town * Agar Malwa district, Madhya Pradesh, India * Agar, Gujarat, a village and former princely state in Rewa Kantha, India * Agar, Turkmenistan, a town

Elsewhere

* Agar, South Dakota, a US town *

Agar Town Agar Town (also known as Ague Town, Hagar Town, Agar-Town and Agar-town) was a small, historically poor neighbourhood of St Pancras, London, St Pancras in central London. Most of the area was demolished making way for St Pancras railway station ...

, a short-lived area in central London * Agar's Island, Bermuda

People

* Agar (name), a given name and a family name, including a list of persons with the name *

Hagar According to the Book of Genesis, Hagar is an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as ''Sarai''), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Haga ...

, a Biblical character, sometimes spelled as Agar * Virginia Tango Piatti, pen name ''Agar''

Plants and animals

* Agar (dog) or Magyar agár, a dog breed *

Agarwood Agarwood, aloeswood, eaglewood, gharuwood or the Wood of Gods, commonly referred to as oud or oudh (from , ), is a fragrant, dark and resinous wood used in incense, perfume, and small Woodworking, hand carvings. It forms in the heartwood of ...

, a fragrant wood used in perfumery

Other uses

* Agar gun, an early type of machine gun *

Agar.io ''Agar.io'' is a Massive multiplayer online game, massive multiplayer online action game created by Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares and published by Miniclip. Players control one or more circular Cell (biology), cells in a map representin ...

, a massively multiplayer online game featuring cellular blobs * Agar, a dialect of the

Dinka language Dinka (natively , or simply ) is a Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, a major ethnic group of South Sudan. There are several main varieties, such as Padang, Rek, Agaar, Ciec, Malual, Apaak, Aliab, Bor, Hol, Nyarweng, Twic Eas ...

of South Sudan *

Ulawa Airport Ulawa Airport is an airport in Arona on Ulawa Island in the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting ...

, Solomon Islands (ICAO code is AGAR) * libAgar, is a cross-platform