bedeguar

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noun

A gall produced on rosebushes, especially on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Diplolepis rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

OriginFrench bédégar ← Persian بادورد →
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Meanings

nounbedeguar (plural bedeguars)

plural bedeguars · alternative bedegar

  1. archaicA gall produced on rosebushes, especially on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Diplolepis rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

Origin

  1. Persianبادورد
  2. Frenchbédégar
  3. Englishbedeguar

From French bédégar, from Persian بادورد or بادآورد, properly a kind of white thorn or thistle. From باد (bâd, “wind”) + ورد (vard, “rose”).

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bedeguar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedeguar

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