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bedeguar

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Noun
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bed=e=guar

CIDE DICTIONARY

bedeguarn. [F., fr. Per. bād-āward, or bād-āwardag, 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 rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bedeguar, n. a mosslike growth on rose-bushes produced by a gall wasp.

Etymology
F b{eacute}degar f. Pers. bad-awar wind-brought

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