Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small insects, such as a gall midge, a gall wasp, or certain flies in the family Tephritidae, whose larvae cause the formation of galls in plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An insect which occasions galls on plants by puncturing them; especially, a hymenopter of the group Gallicolæ or Diplolepariæ, as a cynipid. See
gall , and cut underCynips .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See
Illust. ofgall .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
flies which producegalls .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants
- noun fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants
- noun any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed
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Examples
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What will the puppet show need to include for students to understand the life of a goldenrod gallfly, for example?
Volunteers Keep Hands-On Science Alive in US Classrooms 2011
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(Odontoteomen obesus), white grubs (Halorachia spp.), and the gallfly
Chapter 47 1990
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We see this even in so trifling a fact as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree.
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We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree.
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The abundance of knapweed leads to lots of gallfly larvae, which serve as a food subsidy for the mice.
YubaNet.com 2008
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The abundance of knapweed leads to lots of gallfly larvae, which serve as a food subsidy for the mice.
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The abundance of knapweed leads to lots of gallfly larvae, which serve as a food subsidy for the mice.
innovations-report 2008
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Termites (Odontoteomen obesus), white grubs (Halorachia spp.), and the gallfly (Goccidomulid gall)) are also important pests.
Chapter 10 1996
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