English Dictionary: Bedegar | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Bedeguar \[d8]Bed"e*guar\, Bedegar \Bed"e*gar\, n. [F., fr. Per. b[be]d-[be]ward, or b[be]d-[be]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[91]}). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties. |