a·gar·wood (??gär-wo?od?, ä?-)n. See aloeswood.[Hindi agar, from Prakrit agaru, from Sanskrit agaru?, agaru; akin to Tamil and Malayalam akil.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.