Agar-agar
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Description
The word 'Agar' means seaweed. When a word is doubled, as in agar-agar, most translations take this as a superlative form of the word. Thus, 'agar-agar' means 'best agar' or 'best seaweed'. Current usage drops the repeated term.
Synonyms and Related Terms
given as preferred term in AAT