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Definition of Bedeguar
1. n. 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.
Definition of Bedeguar
1. a spongy gall on the sweet-briar [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedeguar
Literary usage of Bedeguar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"Some shrubs From the very nature of the process of forming willow-galls, bedeguar,
and the artichoke of the oak, whatever theory be adopted, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... the host-caterpillar develops, being found at a later stage within the latter
enveloped in a flexible tube. bedeguar of the rose are familiar examples. ..."
3. Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States by Benjamin Smith Barton (1900)
"PHARM. Rosae Carolinae Fructus — Flores. — bedeguar fung. ... bedeguar adstringens.
vsvs : Soda, ..."
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