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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.

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  • noun archaic A gall produced on rosebushes, especially on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae), and once supposed to have medicinal properties.

Etymologies

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French, from Persian, properly a kind of white thorn or thistle.

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