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Webster 1913 Edition
Bedegar
{ ‖
, Bed′e-guar
,Bed′e-gar
}Noun.
[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.