Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family comprising the gall midges.
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- noun gall midges
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Examples
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Many plant-galls are due, however, to the presence of grubs of tiny dipterous insects, the Cecidomyidae or Gall-midges.
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N.arly fifty years ago N. Wagner (1865) made the remarkable discovery that in the larvae of certain gall-midges (Cecidomyidae) the ovaries might become precociously mature and unfertilised eggs might be developed into small larvae observable within the body of the mother-larva; ultimately these abnormally reared young break their way out.
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