nutrient agar

English Thesaurus

1. any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	culture medium, medium,
definition	:	(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	blood agar,
definition	:	a culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient (noun.substance)

substance holonym	:	agar, agar-agar,
definition	:	a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods (noun.substance)