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Definition of Bedegar

Bedegar
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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- 1969 (1969) 115 Sir Ralph Richardson (1902–1983) "Actor lived here 1944–1968" Bedegar's Lea, Kenwood Close Hampstead Garden Suburb NW3 7JL 51°34′15″N 0°10′27″W...
- folklore attached to it than most. The term 'Bedeguar, Bedegar or Bedequar' comes from a French word, bédégar, and is ultimately from the Persian, bād-āwar, meaning...