Bedeguar
Pronunciation : Bed"e*guar, Bed"e*gar
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F., fr. Per. bad-award, or bad- awardag, prop., a kind of white thorn or thistle.]
Definition : Defn: A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites ros?). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913