[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.117 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.117 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.117 - **Language:** English ### [c10.117](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.117) AGAR-AGAR, s. The Malay name of a kind of sea-weed (\*Spherococcus lichenoides\*). It is succulent when boiled to a jelly; and is used by the Chinese with birdsnest (\*q.v.\*) in soup. They also employ it as a glue, and apply it to silk and paper intended to be transparent. It grows on the shores of the Malay Islands, and is much exported to China. -(\*See Crawfurd, Dict. Ind. Arch., and Milburn, ii. 304\*). - [Previous: c10.116](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.116) - [Next: c10.118](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.118) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.117](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.117) · Pramāṇa