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bedeguar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
be-deguar
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Archaic

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: bédégar, بادورد

Usage

Inflected Forms

bedeguars (plural) bedegar (alternative)

Questions

What does bedeguar mean?
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.
Where does bedeguar come from?
It is traced to French.

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