Bedeguar

{ ‖Bed″e‐guar, Bed″e‐gar } (�), n. [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.