bedeguar

or bed·e·gar

[ bed-i-gahr ]

noun

1. a gall on roses, especially the sweetbrier, produced by a gall wasp.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedeguar¹

1570–80; < Middle French < Arabic < Persian bād-āwar ( d ) windfall, literally, wind-brought

Example Sentences

Bedeguar, bed′e-gar, n. a soft spongy gall found on the branches of some species of roses, esp. the sweet-brier, called also the sweet-brier sponge.

From Project Gutenberg

This was called in the old Pharmacopeias "Bedeguar," and was famous for its astringent properties.

From Project Gutenberg

A vegetable secretion and concretion is thus produced on oak-leaves by the gall-insect, and by the cynips in the bedeguar of the rose; and by the young grasshopper on many plants, by which the animal surrounds itself with froth.

From Project Gutenberg

This in respect to the production of the fruit surrounding the seeds of trees has been assimilated to the gall-nuts on oak-leaves, and to the bedeguar on briars, but there is a powerful objection to this doctrine, viz. that the fruit of figs, all which are female in this country, grow nearly as large without fecundation, and therefore the embryon has in them no self-living principle.

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