bedeguar

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bedeguar - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bedeguar \Bed"e*guar\, Bedegar \Bed"e*gar\, n. [F., fr. Per.
     b[=a]d-[=a]ward, or b[=a]d-[=a]wardag, prop., a kind of white
     thorn or thistle.]
     A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or
     eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly
     (Rhodites ros[ae]). It was once supposed to have medicinal
     properties.
     [1913 Webster]