guar

guar  (gwär)

n.

An annual plant (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus) probably native to India, adapted to semiarid regions and grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, from which guar gum is obtained. Also called cluster bean.

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[Hindi gur, from Sanskrit gopl, a kind of cucumber, short for goplakarka, cowherder's cucumber, from gopla, cowherd : gau, cow; see g^wou- in Indo-European roots + playati, he brings across safely, protects (variant of prayati; see per-² in Indo-European roots).]

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guar [gwɑː]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a leguminous Indian plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, grown as a fodder crop and for the gum obtained from its seeds

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called guar gum a gum obtained from the seeds of this plant, used as a stabilizer and thickening agent in food (E412) and as sizing for paper

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Noun

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guar - drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material cluster bean, Cyamopsis psoraloides, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae Cyamopsis, genus Cyamopsis - small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia