Bedegar definition

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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